FOKEST TREES AND FOREST SCEKERY 



tends throughout the Southwest, pene- 

 trating also northward and eastward, 

 another kind of forest growth that is 

 so distinct in character from all others 

 that it should be specially described. 

 It is, in fact, quite opposite in its na- 

 ture to the shrubbery of the more humid 

 forest regions in that it shows a tend- 

 ency to seek the arid, open, sunny 

 slopes, where it forms a scrubby, though 

 interesting, and varied cover to the 

 rough granite boulders and loose, 

 gravelly soils. This growth is every- 

 where conveniently known as "chap- 

 arral," whether it be the low, even- 

 colored brush on the higher mountains 

 or the dense, scraggy, promiscuous, 

 and impenetrable thicket of the foot- 

 hills and lower and gentler slopes. 

 The impression which the chaparral 

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