610 Part IV. Chapter 4. 
Redwood Formation. This formation south of San Francisco Bay is not 
in a continuous strip. Two large groves exist in the Santa Cruz and Santa 
Lucia Mountains, but the southern limit seems to be in San Jos€e Canyon 
several miles south of Carmel Bay and there is a grove of redwood about 
thirty five miles still farther south on the south fork of Sur Chiquito, a good 
sized trout-stream running through narrow canyons from its source to the ocean. 
All of the typically herbaceous, or undergrowth plants of the redwood forest 
are characteristically northern. 
Fig. 29. Cupressus macrocarpa Hartweg, Monterey Cypress, confined to a narrow strip of coast 
land, several miles long near Monterey Bay, California. Coastal Bluff Formation. From “Country 
Life in America”; copyright 1902 by Doubleday, Page & Co. 
2. Interior Upland Range Formations. 
The information available concerning the vegetation of the southern coast 
ranges is limited in amount. In lieu of more material bearing on this subject, 
a description of the floras of Mount Diablo and Mount Hamilton will be 
given. The flora of these mountains and Mount St. Helena has been com- 
pared and the data have been given elsewhere in this book (see ante page 272): 
Mount Diablo, 3,848 feet (1173 m) in elevation, is situated thirty miles inland. 
The vegetation is more rank than on Mount Hamilton forty miles farther south 
and protected from the ocean by the Santa Cruz Mountains m; 
1) GREENE, E. L.: Vegetation of Mt. Diablo. Erythea I: 166. — Vegetation of the Summit 
of Mt. Hamilton, 1. c. I: 77. 
