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FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



California. — Occurs as scattered individuals aDd detached thickets in northern coast 

 ranges and Sierra foothills. Coast ranges: A single tree at Clear Lake, and several at 

 Sulphur Bank (Lake County) ; group at north base of Mount Tamalpais (Marin County) ; 

 thicket on crest of Coast Range back of Berkeley, and a single tree farther north in 

 Berkeley Hills near upper San Pablo Creek ; canyon of Big Sulphur Creek between 

 Geysers and Cloverdale (Sonoma County) at point about 3 miles below bridge; also 

 at point 2 miles south of Ridgewood Summit (north of Ukiah, Mendocino County). 

 Reported in Santa Lucia Mountains in Sur, Carmelo. and Arroyo Seco river basins. 

 Sierra foothills: In a belt north of Yuba River (Yuba County), running northwest from 



Fig. 144. — Quercus morehus. 



Red Bluff and lower part of Dry Creek into Butte County ; west foot of Stanfleld Hill 

 grade (about 21 miles northeast of Marysville) ; near Newcastle (Placer County) ; 

 Eldorado County, on a head branch of Canyon Creek (tributary Middle Fork American 

 River) 2 miles northeast of Georgetown; North Fork of Cosumnes River (near Nash- 

 ville), Middle Fork of Cosumnes (between Pleasant Valley and Oleta) ridge between 

 North and Middle Forks Cosumnes (about 6 miles east of Nashville, elevation about 

 2,000 feet) ; Sacramento County; near Folsom ; Amador County, near Plymouth, on head 

 of Indian Creek (branch Cosumnes River), near Oleta (Sutter Creek road), and at 



