FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



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Mexico; in north, nt elevations of about 1,000 to .",.000 feet, and in south, at 2,500 to 

 9,000 feet. Reported from southern Utah and Nevada, but authentic records of its exist- 

 ence there are lacking. 



Oregon.— Coast mountains south of Cow Creek Valley (tributary Umpqua River, lat. 42 

 50'), and only as a shrub on streams and in canyons. 



Fig. 133. — Qucreus chrysolepis 



CALIPOBNIA.— Throughoul upper foothills, canyons, and summits of coast ranges and 

 west side of Sierras. a1 elevations- of 2,000 to 6,000 feet, altitudes at which it occurs 

 generally throughout northern part of State, going westward probably to upper sea slope 



