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feet in circumference at 6 feet from the ground. The bark of 

 the redwood is from 6 to 12 inches thick, reddish and smooth 

 the timber is of a beautiful red color, like pencil-wood, fine, 

 close-grained, light but brittle; it is well adapted for in and out 

 door work, as the boards when seasoned do not warp, nor is it 

 attacked by insects. Large quantities of lumber are annually- 

 exported to the Sandwich Islands; 1000 feet of i-inch boards, 

 delivered on the beach at Santa Cruz, are worth 8 pounds. 



"Some fine trees of Abies Douglasii are found in the moun- 

 tains of Santa Cruz; they do not form masses of themselves, but 

 are thinly scattered among the redwood trees, with which they 

 vie in size. The mountain oak No. 84 (1), (Castanea chryso- 

 phylla?) also occurs here, forming a tree fifty feet high, of a 

 pyramidal shape, with persistent lanceolate leaves four inches 

 long, serrulate on the margins; below they are covered with a 

 rusty yellowish down, which in the young leaves, also covers 

 the upper surface. The fructiferous catkins are produced on the 

 points of last year's wood, and do not exceed 2 inches in length, 

 whilst the catkins on the young wood are from 4 to 5 inches 

 long, and sterile. The nuts or rather acorns, are covered in an 

 unripe state, with down, and enclosed in an open cup, which on 

 the outside is clothed with coarse scaly hairs. The mountain 

 oak grows invariably in close shaded woods, and seems to be 

 widely dispersed over the country west of the Rocky mountains. 

 Some Indian tribes eat the acorns either raw, or make a sort of 

 bread of them. 



"On the outskirts of the woods I observed Arbutus procera 

 50 feet high; a Ivauraceous tree with linear light green leaves of 

 nearly the same dimensions; two species of Ceanothns; Corylus 

 No. 85; a Spiraea; Solanum No. 90(2); Zauschneria No. 97(3) 

 with scavlel flowers like a Fuchsia, and No. 87(4). 



(1) OUERCUS DRNSIFLORA H. & A. 



(2) Solanum umbelliferum Esch. 



(3) Zauschneria caufornica Presl. 



(4) Antirrhinum geandulosum Lindl. Corolla rosea. 



