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light-brown mottled shell, are delicious 

 in flavor, either roasted or fresh, and 

 In a good season are collected in im- 

 mense quantities by the Indians for 

 food. These nuts in a roasted condi- 

 tion are not rare in San Diego mar- 

 kets, and often exported in quantities, 

 being considered quite a luxury with 

 some. Unlike the other nut pines, the 

 tree is very ornamental when properly 

 grown, and forms a worthy monument 

 to the botanist of the Mexican bound- 

 ary survey of 1850 — Dr. Charles Chris- 

 topher Parry — in whose honor the 

 specie is named. 



PINUS RADIATA Don. (P. insismis, Lou- 

 don.) Monterey pine; a popular tree for Cali- 

 fornia planting. 



PINUS SABINIANA Dougl. Gray-leaf pine; 

 one of the nut pines, or "Digger Pine," the 

 large seeds of which were formerly used for 

 productive. A vigorous grower, 

 or more, the main stems often with a circum- 

 ference of 50 feet." 

 PINUS TORREYANA Parry. 



The Soledad pine was for many years 

 believed an exclusive resident of tlife 

 suburban parts of San Diego, occurring 

 on the hills facing the sea near Del 

 Mar. A second small grove has been 

 discovered on Santa Rosa island. 

 Where most exposed it forms a low, 

 scraggly shrub, 2 or 3 feet high only at 

 times, but spereading over a wide area; 

 at its best estate it forms a small, 

 graceful tree 20 to 30 feet high, a foot 

 or more in diameter. The very stout 

 leaves are 8 by 11 inches long, 5 in a 

 sheath. The edible seeds, 8-11 lines 

 long, with a very hard shell, produced 

 in an ovate cone, 4-5 inches long and 

 nearly as great diameter. 



GenuM SEtlUOIA Endl. 

 SEQUOIA GIGANTEA Lindl & Gordon. The 

 Giant Redwood, or "Big Tree" of California— 

 the largest tree known in the world. 



SEQUOIA SEMPERVIRENS Endl. Red- 

 wood, "one of the most colossal trees of the 

 globe." 



Genus PSEUDOTSUGA Carriere. 

 PSEUDOTSUGA MACROCARPA Lem. 



P.^eudotsuga macirocarpa, so named 

 by Prof Lemmon in the third Cal. For. 

 report, IsC is a "rather irregular tree 

 150 feet high, 4 feet in trunk diameter. 

 Bears light crops of cones, the reported 

 fecundity perhaps exceptional." It was 

 originally found between Banner and 

 Julian, in San Diego county, where it 

 forms one of the most beautiful of 

 trees, perfect in symmetry and grace. 

 It is nearly allied to the Douglas spruce 



of the north, and for many yearj treat- 

 ed as a variety — as it should probably 

 still be treated. 



Genus ABIES L.luk. 

 ABIES CONCOLOR Lindl. 



Genus CUPRESSLS Toiirnefort. 



CUPRESSUS GUADALUPFNSIS S. Wat. 



The blue cypress is a handsome, slen- 

 der tree, 40 to possibly 60 feet high, 

 with beautiful exfoliating reddish bark 

 and glaucous foliage, first discovered 

 on Guadalupe island, and later found 

 in rocky canyons near Ensenada, on 

 the mainland. It proves not rare in 

 some of the canyons near the inte na- 

 tional boundary, and Perish rdcords it 

 in "ravines near the Old Mission, San 

 Diego, not abundant" (Zoe., 4:352). It^ 

 graceful habit and compact growth 

 makes it One of the most ornamental 

 species in the genus. 



CLTRESSUS MAOROCARPA Hartwe?. Mon- 

 terey cypress, a familiar hsdge-<;re9 In Cali- 

 fornia, cones the largest of the genu's, about 

 an inch thick. 



Genus THUYA Tournefort. 

 THI^YA GIGANTEA Nn^t. 



Genns CHAMAECYPARTS Spaeli. 

 CHAMAECYPARIS LAWS^NL^ NA Pa" - 



lat. 



Cupressus lawsoniana Arrir Mut in 

 Edinb New Phil J n sr, 1:5<>2 t 9 CJ?-Ap 

 18c5). 



Genus TSUGA Carriere. 



TSUGA MERTEN~I*NA Car^. 

 Genus PICEA UnU. 

 PIOEA SITCHENSIS Carr. 

 Tx9lXACEAE. 

 Genus TORREYA Arnott. 

 TORREYA CALIFORNICA Torr. 



Genus TAXUS Tournefort. 

 TAXUS BREVIFOLIA Nutt. 

 ORCHIDACEAE. 

 Genus EPIPACTIS HJiller. 

 EPIPACTIS GIGANTEA Dougl. 



Genins CYPRIPEDIIJM Linnaeus. 

 CYPRIPEDIUM MONTANI'M Doug". 



Genus HABENARIA Wilia. 

 HABENARIA COOPERI S. Watson. 

 HBEN"'nA ELEGANS B-'a-d^''. 

 HABBRNARIA LEUCOSTACHYS S. "W. 

 HABENARIA UNALASCHENSIS S. 

 Watson. 



IRIDACEAE. 

 Genus SISYRINCHIUM liinnaeus. 

 SISYRINCHIUM BELLLM S. Watson. 

 SISYRINCHIUM CALIFORNICUM Ait. 



Genus IRIS Tournefort. 

 IRIS MACROSIPHON Torr. 



AMARYLLIDACEAE. 

 Genus AGAVE Linnaeus. 



