FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



tends throughout the Southwest, pene- 

 trating also northward and eastward, 

 another kind of forest growth that is 

 so distinct m character from all others 

 that it should be specially described. 

 It is, in fact, quite opposite in its na- 

 ture to the shrubbery of the more humid 

 forest regions in that it shows a tend- 

 ency to seek the arid, open, sunny 

 slopes, where it forms a scrubby, though 

 interesting, and varied cover to the 

 rough granite boulders and loose, 

 gravelly soils. This growth is every- 

 where conveniently known as "chap- 

 arral," whether it be the low, even- 

 colored brush on the higher mountains 

 or the dense, scraggy, promiscuous, 

 and unpenetrable thicket of the foot- 

 hills and lower and gentler slopes. 

 The impression which the chaparral 

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