PLATE 14 

 Modern Vegetation Eclated to the Verdi Flora 



Fig. 1. Looking west on State Highway 88 a few miles east of Jackson, Cali- 

 fornia. In the foreground is a live oak woodland of Quercus lobata and Q. 

 wislizenii, with associates of manzanita, buekbrush, and willow. The Sierran 

 forest of yellow pine, white fir, sugar pine, gooseberry, and willow occurs on 

 the cooler, south side of the valley, with tongues of forest entering the wood- 

 land in favorable sites. 



Fig. 2. Looking west on State Highway 49 a few miles south of Placerville, 

 California. Oak woodland and savanna occupy the more exposed southerly 

 sites, with the Sierran forest confined to the cooler northerly exposures (left). 

 Most of the species represented here also occur at the locality shown in 

 figure 1. 



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