FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
monly called farther north, with its 
small, white-petaled flowers enclosing 
a greenish-yellow center. Very plen- 
tifully scattered among all these we 
usually find the scrubby forms of the 
canyon live oak and the California 
black oak. Here and there we may 
see a large golden-flowered mallow, or 
the queenly yucca raising its fine pyra- 
mid of cream-colored flowers out of 
the dense mass. 
The far view is quite different. 
Distance smoothes the surface and 
somewhat obliterates the colors, though 
we may still distinguish a variegated 
appearance. The eye takes in the 
larger outlines and the scattered pines 
that sometimes occur within the chap- 
arral. Nor is the latter, as we now per- 
ceive, always a dense growth, but may 
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