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he pauses beside a half acre of California poppies, which at midday resem- 

 bles beaten gold, the most brilliant and the most fascinating of California 

 flowers. Nature is here in her loveliest mood, and robed in her brightest col- 

 ors. She has spread her tapestries until they rival the gorgeous carpets of 

 Persian looms, and has hung the hillsides in draperies that outshine Bluff 

 King Harry's "Field of the Cloth of Gold." 



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CONIFEROUS TREES AND SHRUBBERY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY. 



California is the native home of many stately forest trees, among them 

 being the giant redwood or Sequoia gigantea the largest tree known in the 

 world, though Australia produces in her Eucalyptus the tallest on record. 

 Many of the most beautiful known evergreens are natives of the Golden 

 State, and a very fair proportion occur within the present restricted area of 

 San Diego county. 



The following is a brief list of the cone-bearing trees credited to San 

 Diego county, with some brief references to more extended dscriptions. 

 ABIES (Tournefort) Linnaeus, Fl Lapp 277 (1737); Link, in Linnaea 15 



(1851) 525. Orcutt, Am pi 1:347 D. 

 A. concolor Lindl & Gord. in J Hort Soc 5:210 (1850). Orcutt, Am pi 



1:347 D. 



PINUS (Tournefort) Linnaeus Syst ed 1 (1735). Orcutt Am pi 1:348 D. 

 P. attenuata Lemmon, based on P. tuberculata Gordon 1849 non Don, 



1836. Orcutt, Am pi 1:348 D. 



Credited to the southern slope of the San Bernardino mountains, but 

 not known from San Diego county. 

 P. Coulter! D. Don,, in Linnaean soc tr 17:44*0 (1837). Orcutt, Am pi 



1:190, 348 D. 

 P. flexilis James, in Long's Exped 2:27, 35. Orcutt, Am pi 1:349 D. 



Summits of San Gorgonio, San Jacinto and Santa Rosa mountains, in 

 Southern California. 

 P. monophylla Torrey and Fremont, Rep 319 t. 4. Orcutt, Am pi 1:349 D. 



P. Fremontiana Endl, Syn Conif 183, in part, not Gord. 



Confined to the eastern slopes of the mountains bordering the Colorado 

 Desert, in California and Baja California; perhaps more abundant in Ne- 

 vada, southern Utah and Arizona, where it is well known as the Nut pine 

 one of the pinyones of the Mexicans, the seeds forming an important article 

 of food to the Indians in primitive days. 

 P. Murrayana (Balf.) Bot Exped Oreg 2, cum ic.; A. Murr, in Bot Soc 



Edinb tr 6:351 (1860). Orcutt, Am pi 1:349 D. 



Engelmann, Bot Cal 2:126, treated this as a variety of P. contorta. 

 Abrams includes in his Flora of Los Angeles, page 4, and it extends to 

 Oregon, Utah and Colorado. 

 P..Parryana Engelmann, in Am J Sc, sr 2, 34:332, in note (1862). Orcutt, 



Am pi 1:94, 349 D. 



P. quadrifolia Parry, ex Parl in DC Prodr 14 (2): 402. 



This is the beautiful Pinyone pine of the mountain table lands of Baja 

 California, the thin-shelled nuts being collected and roasted by the Indians 

 lor food. Some years they have been brought to the San Diego markets in 

 great quantities, but the Indians who formerly harvested them are nearly 

 extinct or scattered. They would gather the ripe cones and branches in 

 layers, and burn, so that the cones would readily open and yield the delic- 

 ious roasted nuts. The tree is often very symmetrical, but has not so far 

 teen made to thrive near the coast. 



P. Lambert iana Douglas in Linn soc tr 15:500 (1827). Orcutt, Am pi 

 1:190 D. 

 A tree of gigantic dimensions, 150-300 ft hi, and 10-20 ft in diam, with 



