Trees and Shrubs of San Diego County, California. 65 
ified list has nearly the same omissions as the‘complete list,’ nota- 
bly, the Rhus ovata, Cixpressus Guadaloupensis, Berberis Fre- 
montii, and other well known trees and shrubs of our county, 
and-even the palm was ommitted from the ‘complete list.’ Mr. 
S. B. Parish, of San Bernardino, (70¢ San Diego), who has an ex- 
tensive acquaintance with the flora of Southern California, re- 
quested information relative to certain species that were included 
in the ‘complete list’ and after furnishing him with my notes, he 
informed me that a revision of the ‘complete list’ was in progress 
and that he would forward my notes for use in the revision. 
Evidently Mr. Parish has had as little to do with the ‘modified’ 
list as myself and should not be held in any way responsible for 
its errors. Only one species, Euonymus occidentalis. Nutt., is 
directly credited to me, and the unpublished name of Dr. Treleas, 
(E. Parishii) which is proposed for doubtless the same shrub, is 
given asa second species of this genus. 
It is sincerely to be regretted that sueh inaccuracies should 
appear in even this comparatively unimportant paper in a publi- 
cation of our government, as it tends to throw suspicion upon all 
the work of the Forestry division, and perhaps not with injustice 
in this case. So important an interest as our forests is worthy of 
the most careful and intelligent treatment, such as it receives at 
the hands of foreign countries. 
It is not advisable at present to compile even an appro indict 
complete list of our ligneus plants, pending the elaboration of 
recently collected herbarium material and copious field notes. 
Our FORESTS. 
The true forests of San Diego county are, properly Spence? 
restricted to the higher mountainous region, comprising the La- 
guna, Cuyamaca, Smith’s and San Jacinto mountains, usually at 
an altitude of 5,000 to 7,000 feet or greater. Considerable timber 
exists inthese mountains, and at San Jacinto, saw-mills are con- 
tinually at work, supplying the immediate vicinity with lumber, 
but none is exported. The timber is less valuable as a rule than 
that found atthe north. Pine, and a little spruce and cedar, is 
the principle timber utilized. These forests are composed mainly 
of the following trees: 
Pinus Lambertina, Doug]. Pseudotsuga Douglasii, Carr. 
’ Pinus ponderosa, Dougl. Libocedrus decurrens, Torr. 
Pinus Coulteri, Don. Abies concolor, Lindl. 
Pinus Sabiniana, Dougl. Quercus chrysolegis, Liebur, 
Pinus Jeffreyi, Murr. Ouercus Kelloggii, Newberry. 
Pinus Sabiniana, Dougl., is not known to the writer but has 
been credited to the county. The only form of Pseudotsuga 
Douglasii, Carr., known by me to occur in the county, is the 
variety macrocarpa, Engelm., which does not approach in size 
the grand spruces of the north. 
GT. OF Gis. 
