PLATE 16 

 Modern Vegetation Related to the Verdi Flora 



Fig. 1. View of the Knobeone pine forest at the lower margin of yellow pine 

 forest on the City Creek road, southern California. The small pines in the 

 foreground are mingling with a chaparral composed of species of scrub oak, 

 buckbrush, and manzanita. The Sierran forest covers the upper slopes. 



Fig. 2. View up the valley of Mill Creek, southern California, from an 

 altitude of 4,500 feet. Woodland and chaparral cover the lower and middle 

 mountain slopes to the right, with forest above. Forest reaches the floor of the 

 canyon a short distance upstream, where species of yellow pine, white fir, 

 sugar pine, manzanita, cherry, and willow occur which are closely similar to 

 Verdi plants. Cottonwood is common a short distance downstream, where its 

 leaves are small like the Verdi dominant. 



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