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27_168 Berkeley ---------- tendency to cross-fracturing. A dead limb picked up and struck on the ground breaks into short fragments. Ned Blake spoke of Redwood tops falling in quiet weather in the same way. Redwood tops, wind-killed, doubtless fracture cross-wise spontaneously, that is by season-checking, just as is the case with dead limbs of the Abies concolor, which can be struck on the ground, the limb breaking simultaneously into small billets [?], -- just right for a camp-fire. None our oaks have a tendency to cross-fracture and this fact may help explain the falling of |
27_169 January 1914 ---------- oak limbs in quiet weather. I have never heard of accidents to human beings from falling oak limbs in the Sierra Nevada. - Xerophyllum tenax. Called Basket-grass Lily by Anita Blake. - California collectors. Compare Hemsley's acc't of botanical exploration in Central America (Biol. Cent. Am. Bot.) - Vaccinium ovatum Ph. Becomes a small tree in the Redwood Belt of Mendocino Co. W.C. Matthews, Bot. 104, brings me from Ft. Bragg sections from the trunk of a tree. A section about 4 ft. from the ground is 5 x 7 inches, shortest and longest diameters respectively. -over- |
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