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AMERICAN FOREST TREES 



proportionately as large, they would be the size of barrels. The huckleberry oak's 

 acorns are set in their golden cups. The name huckleberry is applied because of a 

 fancied resemblance of the leaves to those of huckleberries. They are generally less 

 than one inch in length, sometimes not half an inch. This unique variety of oak 

 ranges on elevated slopes and ridges of the Sierra Nevada mountains, and the traveler 

 in climbing to the peaks is often grateful for the privilege of pulling himself up the 

 steep slopes by grasping in his hands the tops of full grown trees. 



PALMER OAK (Quercus chrysolepis palmeri) is considered a variety of canyon 

 live oak by some, but Sudworth believes it is a distinct species, and draws his con- 

 clusion from forms of leaves, flowers, and fruit. It forms large thickets on foothills 

 and plateaus near the southern boundary of California, eighty miles or more east of 

 San Diego. The trees do not attain sufficient size to give them commercial im- 

 portance. 



