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FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 

 NEOWASHINGTONIA. PALMS. 



This small group of palms, named in honor of George Washington, is com- 

 posed of trees with big, column-like trunks, almost uniform in diameter 



Fig. 77. — Xeoicashingtonia filifera; original 48 feet high. 



throughout their length. The top of the trunk has a dense crown of very 

 broad, fan-like, long-stemmed, circular leaves, deeply slashed into ribbon-like 



