Forest trees of the Pacific slope . Fig. 154.—Lyonnihainnus flurihundus. RANGE. Southern Oalifornia coast islands. Santa Cniz, Santa tatalina, Santa Rosa, and SanClemente. rarticularly abundant on north shjpe of Santa Cruz. Rarely arborescent onSanta Catalina. FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 333 OCCURRENCK. Canyon slopes: in rocky and gravelly, dry soils. Forms rather dense small nurestands, a number of stems growing from one root. ^. Fig. 155.—Lyonothamnus florihumlus. CoNDiTioxs.—Undetermined, but probably similar to tbose of Traskmahogany. Tolerance axd Reproduction.—Undetermin
Forest trees of the Pacific slope . Fig. 154.—Lyonnihainnus flurihundus. RANGE. Southern Oalifornia coast islands. Santa Cniz, Santa tatalina, Santa Rosa, and SanClemente. rarticularly abundant on north shjpe of Santa Cruz. Rarely arborescent onSanta Catalina. FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 333 OCCURRENCK. Canyon slopes: in rocky and gravelly, dry soils. Forms rather dense small nurestands, a number of stems growing from one root. ^. Fig. 155.—Lyonothamnus florihumlus. CoNDiTioxs.—Undetermined, but probably similar to tbose of Traskmahogany. Tolerance axd Reproduction.——OS 22 334 FOREST TREES OF THE PACTFIC SLOPE. Family PLATANACE-ffi. A small srmip of trees characterizwl by larj;t> tleciduons leaves and especiallyby their uiiiiute llowers, borne in closely packed, si)lierical or ball-like beads,attached to a thread-like, pendulous stem. From one to half a dozen of theseball-like, greenish clusters are produced on a stem. The male and female flowers(each iu ball-like clusters) occur ou different parts of the same tree, usually ondifferent parts of the same branch. The male clusters aie smaller (about one-third of an inch iu diameter) than the female heads (about one-half inch indiameter). The female clusters develop into very chai-acteristic, spherical,hard balls of seed, the mature balls beinji from three-fourths inch to 1* inchesin diameter, one to six of which may be attac
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