FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



monly called farther north, with its 

 small, white-petaled flowers enclosing 

 a greenish-yellow center. Yery plen- 

 tifully scattered among all these we 

 usually find the scrubby forms of the 

 canyon live oak and the California 

 black oak. Here and there we may 

 see a large golden-flowered mallow, or 

 the queenly yucca raising its fine pyra- 

 mid of cream-colored flowers out of 

 the dense mass. 



The far view is quite different. 

 Distance smoothes the surface and 

 somewhat obliterates the colors, though 

 we may still distinguish a variegated 

 appearance. The eye takes in the 

 larger outlines and the scattered pines 

 that sometimes occur within the chap- 

 arral. I^or is the latter, as we now per- 

 ceive, always a dense growth, but may 

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