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ered all the ranges immediately to the east the whole 

 series of the mountains of Diabolo. 



There is no time to-night to tell of the zoology of this 

 peculiar region. Suffice to say that this, too, would, if 

 properly presented, form a most interesting chapter. 

 These rocks fairly swarm with a multitude of animal 

 forms, some of the most beautiful things on which man 

 ever gazed in all this beautiful world. Sea-urchins in 

 royal purple dressed; sea-anemones finer and fairer if 

 possible, than the flowers that deck the overhanging 

 land; scuttling crabs of every possible hue: haliotis so 

 abundant that the industrious Japanese has here set up 

 an abalone fishing station and sends off continually tons 

 of these beautiful shells to every part of the world. The 

 fauna of the place deserves the enthusiasm of the zoolo- 

 gist. 



But now, with all this varied background, let us 

 turn our attention to the world of plants, especially to the 

 trees: these offer the botanist's problem of the locality, 

 and it is their response to these cosmic changes, these 

 shiftings to and fro of shore and mountain, that make 

 Point Lobos famous. The flora of Point Lobos is not only 

 peculiar in California, the land of peculiar things and pe- 

 culiar people (sotto voce), but it is peculiar on the planet, 

 unrivalled in the world. Here is a curious mixture; on 

 the one hand we have the flora of the desert, Artemisia, 

 Chenopodium, Eriogonum, and all those semi-shrubby 

 things that dot the desert all the way across the continent. 

 On the other hand, we have a mountain flora and this 

 unique ; we have pine and live-oak and cypress for trees, 

 with typical mountain ferns, among which the famous 



