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this point, so the slenderness must have impressed him. The trunks were bare of limbs for 3 or 4 ft. from the ground. I did not ask the explorer concerning the kind of brush on this brush-covered flat country.
F.M. Anderson found a spruce or in Preston Peak which he believes to be different from our described species. Brewer's Spruce is abundant on Preston Peak. He also found near the coast a species of pine which he firmly believes to be new and not a
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form of Pinus contorta which he has observed on the sea coast, in the swamps, and in the high mountains. he sent specimens to his old friend Applegate (P.O. Klamath Falls); or at least he sent to him specimens of the unknown spruce.
Anderson saw redwood piling in the salt water at Eureka, (Humboldt Bay) which was sprouting green sprouts 2 ft. long. The piling moreover was small end down. The redwood is used there for wharf piles. Anderson regards it as an intolerable shame that the lumbermen
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