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33_8 Mt. Tamalpais. here at home, -that is taken from the same bush, typical depressed berries 3 lines high! Berries covered with fine _ [and] short glandular hairs.--Same [Some?] mistake maybe] cf. 6847. No. 6810. Castanopsis chrysophylla var. minor Benth. Fine fruits from crown-sprouts which arose after the 1913 fire. Cont. 6805. Foliage white-glaucous on margins leaves, that is between ridges, in the furrows as it were of the branchlets. I discover no glands on back of leaves. --The trails on Tamalpais are abundantly marked with signs--except where you want one most. But the numerous signs are a great help and serve to fix |
33_9 July 9, 1916. names to the trails. The anti-fire signs are also everywhere: "Break your match in two;" "Stamp out Your Cigareete [cigarette]"; "Did You Look Back?" etc. etc. The whole region is a fine trailing [traveling?] ground for hikers and ought to be a public park. --Redwood Peak Ridge, just south of summit of Snake Road. The last time I think that I was on this ridge, the hills east were clothed in the tender green of early spring. But the eye loves better the dry brown wrinkled hills resting placidly in the summer sun. They speak of permanence, steadiness, quiet steadfastness, --or as the prophets said, the eternal hills. In spring they lose, superficially, that character. There is something wistful, almost sad about the tender green, it is so fleeting! --July 16, 1916. |
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