THE TREES AND SHRUBS OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 



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In the open country of the foothills are many fine evergreen oaks ; 

 I have photographs of two of them, Qitercus agrifolia and Q. chrysolepis, 

 also of the great ' Valley Oak,' Q. lobata — a deciduous tree and the 

 largest oak of the many Californian species. 



Perhaps as interesting as any of the many trees we met was a grove 

 of that rarest of all silver firs, Abies bracteata, on the Santa Lucia 

 Mountains, not far from Monterey; Pinns Torreyana is a very 

 rare tree found growing on a few of the islands and on the coast 

 of the mainland. Its rarity is my excuse for mentioning it, as it 

 occurs far to the south of Monterey. 



