Trees ayid Shrubs of San Diego County, Cilifornia. 63 



ified list has nearly the same omissions as the'complete list,' nota- 

 bly, the Rhus ovata, Cixpressus Guadaloiipensis, Rerberis P>e- 

 montii, and other well known trees and shrubs of our county, 

 and even the palm was ommitted from the 'complete list.' Mr.' 

 S. H. Parish, of .San Bernardino, {not San Diego), who has an ex- 

 tensive acquaintance with the flora of Southern California, re- 

 quested inlormation relatixe to certain species that were included 

 in the 'complete list' and after furnishing him with my notes, he 

 informed me that a revision of the 'complete list' was in progress 

 and that he would forward my notes lor use in the revision. 

 Evidently Mr. Parish has had as little to do with the 'modified' 

 list as myself and should not be held in any way responsible for 

 its errors. Only one species, Euonymus occidentalis. Nutt., is 

 directly credited to me, and the unpublished name of Dr. Treleas, 

 (E. Parishii) which is proposed for doubtless the same shrub, is 

 given as a second species of this genus. 



It is sincerely to be regretted that such inaccuracies should 

 appear in even this comparatixely unimportant paj^er in a publi- 

 cation of our go\ernment, as it tends to throw suspicion upon all 

 the work of the Forestry division, and perhaps not with injustice 

 in this case. So important an interest as our forests is worthy of 

 the most careful and intelligent treatment, such as it receives at 

 the hands of foreign countries. 



It is not advisable at present to compile even an approximately 

 complete list of our ligneus plants, pending the elaboration of 

 recently collected herbarium material and copious field notes. 



Our Forests. 



The true forests of San Diego county are, properly speaking, 

 restricted to the higher mountainous region, comprising the La- 

 guna, Cuyamaca, Smith's and San Jacinto mountains, usually at 

 an altitude of 5,000 to 7,000 feet or greater. Considerable timber 

 exists in these mountains, and at San Jacinto, saw-mills are con- 

 tinually at work, supplying the immediate vicinity w^ith lumber, 

 but none is exported. The timber is less \aluable as a rule than 

 that found at the north. Pine, and a little spruce and cedar, is 

 the principle timber utilized. These forests are composed mainly 

 of the following trees: 



Pinus Lambertina, Dougl. Pseudotsuga Douglasii, Carr, 



Pinus ponderosa, Dougl. Libocedrus decurrens, Torr. 



Pinus Coulteri, Don. Abies concolor, Lindl. 



Pinus Sabiniana, Dougl. Ouercus chrysolegis, Liebur. 



Pinus Jefifreyi, Murr. Quercus Kelloggii, Newberry. 



Pinus Sabiniana, Dough, is not known to the writer but has 

 been credited to the county. The only form of Pseudotsuga 

 Douglasii, Carr., known by me to occur in the county, is the 

 variety macrocarpa, Engelm., which does not approach in size 

 the grand spruces of the north. 



C. R. Orcutt. 



