Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855)

United States. War Department, author · Washington [D.C.] : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer · leaf 314

An illustration from Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, 1855, leaf 314 — CHAPTER II. DESCRIPTIONS OE THE EOREST TREES OE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND OREGON. iEscuLUS Californica, Nutt. The California Buckeye. M. Californica, Nutt. Torr. & Gray , Flor. 1 , p. 251. M. Californica, Nutt. Sylva, 2, p. 69, t. 74. … Fig. 1. Leaves and flowers of JE. Californica , J natural size, and a dower of the natural size. Description. — A shrub, or low spreading tree ; leaflets 5, lanceolate or elliptical, acuminate, narrowed toward the rounded base, serrulate, glabrous, glaucous, or colored below ; flowers large in a…

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