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Pt. Reyes, Inverness, Olema - Aralia Californica, Italian Canyon, 8 ft. high, abundant in the forest shade. Stems unbranched! but zig-zag, at each angle or node a leaf with its long petiole and enlarged base! These long stalks of the compounded leaves make in effect a dichotomous structure physiologially if not morphologically. - Umbellularia Californica in Italian Canyon on shady hillside and north slope low down too, mostly in circles! Typical circle aberage 8 ft. 8 in. diam., 15 large and 6 small poles, all the latter will be shade killed. Clump 50 ft. h.
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Nov. 11 -12, 1906. - Red-berried Elder, Sambucus callicarpa, at Inverness, sterile shoot of 1906 season 13 ft. 3 in. long! - Bishop Pine. Young trees 4 to 16 years old make a growth in height of 2 to 2 1/2 feet often in a season, sometimes 3 ft. but did not measure the latter case except with eye. Where fire has killed the old forest out chapparal is likely to come in, consisting of Chinquapin (Castanop. [castanopsis] chrysophylla Adenostoma fasiculatum [fasciculatum sic] H.&A. Manzanita (A. [Arctostaphylos] tomentosa?) Gaultheria Shallon Ph. Vaccinium ovatum Ph. Ceanothus thyrsiflorus The Bishop Pine, however, are
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