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Santa Ysabel, San Diego Co.
No. 8525. Viola [chrysantha Hook V crossed out] douglasii Stend. Fields at Santa Ysabel.
Quercus engelmannii This is common about Witch Creek and all the way to the hill slopes overlooking Santa Ysabel Valley. We meet it again just northerly from Santa Ysabel--fine trees 40 to 50 feet high, with trunks 1 to 2 and even 3 ft. diam. The branches are many and straight, or in older trees very crooked. The crowns tend to be broader than in Quercus douglasii which it much resembles. The tree holds its leaves all winter.
As we near San Jose del Valle we find it associated with Quercus kelloggii which replaces it on the northerly slopes. There are however three oaks associated, the third being Quercus agrifolia
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of which there are fine individuals. In the stream bed within a few yards of these oaks grows Platanus racemosa. It is here often badly attacked by mistletoe.
On my right as we go northerly there is a fine formation of Adenostoma fasciculatum, its borders mixed with White Sage.
The White Sage is common in this country and all the way from Escondido we have noticed bee colonies in the canons and on the hillsides. Dutton says his father had a saying of bees: Swarm in May Worth a load of hay Swarm in June Worth a silver spoon; Swarm in July Not worth a fly.
-The chaparral of the hills is composed of the following
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