FOREST TEEES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



888 



Longevity.— Not fully determined. Two trees, respectively 5| and 33 inches 

 in diameter, were 4.'! and .'!!) years old. 



RANGE. 



California (from Mariposa) to Lower California. 



Fig. 180. — Fremontodendron californicui 



OCCURRENCE. 



Lower mountain and higher foothill slopes and ridges; in dry. gravelly, and rocky 

 soils. Form- extensive pure shrubby thickets, or groups (small trees) mingled with scrub 

 oak, mountain mahogany, hollyleaf cherry, manzanlta, ceanothus, and other chaparral 

 brush. Largest on. Sierra foothills. 



