Excerpt from Chaparral: Studies in the Dwarf Forests, or Elfin-Wood, of Southern California Chaparral. - An area whose permanent and mature crop is a mixed forest of stunted trees, resulting from certain climatic conditions which produce sclerophyllous or hard-leafed dwarfs. In the United States it is found in southern California. The type corresponds to the scrub, elfin wood, bush forest, heath scrub, maqui, shrub steppe, etc., which are peculiar to sclerophyllous woodland regions in other countries. Brushland. - An area whose crop is low trees or Shrubs having no commercial value. The occurrence of brush creates a distinct land type, but all land sup porting brush does not belong to the type. When brush occurs under a cover of large trees in the form of undergrowth, underbrush, or thicket, the classi fication is either timberland or woodland. Brush may temporarily form an exclusive cover, owing to the removal of large trees from an area, but such a temporary cover of brush does not remove the land from the type to which it previously belonged. When this temporary cover includes some of the species which are found in true chaparral, its form may be termed mock chaparral. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.