FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



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from 12 to 20 feet high. The clear trunk is short, giving off big branches which 

 curve upward, then down, often drooping nearly to the ground and forming a 

 handsome dome-like crown. The bark of young trees and portions of the large 

 branches is smooth and ashy white, while that of older trunks is blackish 



Fig. 82. — Juglans calif ornica: a, nut without hull. 



brown and rather deeply and sharply furrowed and ridged. The California 

 species resembles the eastern black walnut sufficiently to suggesl that tree to 

 unc familiar with it. The leaves (fig. 82), with from '•> to 17 leaflets, arc light 

 yellow-green and are smooth throughout when full grown; occasionally, how- 



