150 California Trees and Flowers. 
large, single, lovely pink flowers, is as pretty as its more showy cul- 
tivated sisters, and equally admired by those who love the beauties 
of nature. 
R. MINUTIFOLA Engelm. Parry’s wild Mexican rose, with its 
small, finely incised foliage, and small pink or white flowers that 
closely nestled among the leaves, met with a warm welcome when 
discovered in Lower California in 1882, but has steadily repulsed the 
kind advances of the gardener and refuses to long survive away 
from its native sky. 
SALVIA. 
S. GARDUACEA Benth. The Thistle-leaved sage, known to the 
Mexicans as Chia, is densely white-woolly, with prickly foliage, and 
showy lavender colored flowers, an inch long, in many-storied head- 
like whorls on a stem a foot or two high. Cultivated in Europe 
since 1854. 
S. COLUMBARL#® Benth. Smaller and less conspicuous. Also 
known as Chia. The seeds of either species infused in water form a 
pleasant mucilaginous drink; used largely by the aborigines medi- 
cinally as a beverage. 
SAMBUCUS. 
S. guauca Nutt. The California Elder forms a large bush or 
small tree and bears prolifically of its edible berries, prized by some 
for making pies or sauce. 
SCHINUS. 
S. MOLLE L. A graceful evergreen tree, a native of Mexico and 
South America, with glossy light green drooping leaves in twenty or 
more pairs of slender leaflets. The small white flowers in large 
panicles followed by lovely clusters of small red berries. The Pepper 
tree, as it is called, is very ornamental, and planted extensively for 
shade or avenues. 
SEQUOIA. 
A remarkable California genus, including the noted Redwood 
and Big-tree for which California is famous. 
S. GIGANTEA Deciasne. This giant of the California woods, is 
the largest and tallest tree known to exist on the American conti- 
nent, attaining a height exceeding 300 feet, only exceeded in size by 
some of the gums of Australia. 
S. SEMPERVIRENS H/ndl. The California Redwood is the most 
valuable timber tree on the Pacific Coast, attaining a height of 200 to 
300 feet, with light but strong and durable wood, susceptible to a 
handsome finish, of a walnut brown color. 
SIMMONDSIA. 
S. CALIFORNICA Nuttall. A low diffusely branched shrub, form- 
ing oval bushes one to five (rarely ten or fifteen) feet high with pale, 
