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prevailing trees. The deciduous trees which accompany them 
are small in comparison with their gigantic companions, and 
merely form an undergrowth for these. 
Of the sixty or more species of Conifers found on the Pacific 
Coast, the larger part occur in California, which possesses more 
species than the whole United States east of the Rocky Moun- 
tains. An unusually large number of these are peculiar to the 
state and of very restricted range. Among the better known 
of these peculiarly Californian Conifers may be mentioned the 
two Sequoias, z.e., the redwood and giant Sequoia; Punis insig- 
nis, and Cupressus macrocarpa. The number of endemic angio- 
sperms is also very large. 
It is doubtful whether anywhere there are more magnificent 
forests than the great redwood forests of the coast range or the 
forest belt of the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, where 
grow the great Sequoias in company with noble sugar pines 
and giant firs and cedars. 
In this land of big things nothing has impressed me like 
these giant trees, the true kings of our American forests. 
