"The Forests of the Yosemite Park",
chapter 4 of John Muir's book Our National Parks

This World Wide Web page written by Dan Styer;
http://www.oberlin.edu/physics/dstyer/Muir/TheForestsOfYosemite.html;
3 October 2012.


Name used by Muir Name used today
digger nut-pine (Pinus Sabiniana) California foothill pine (Pinus sabiniana)
Pinus attenuata Knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata)
nut-pine (Pinus monophylla) Singleleaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla)
white pine (Pinus flexilis) Limber pine (Pinus flexilis)
dwarfed pine or white-barked pine (Pinus albicaulis) Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis)
mountain pine (Pinus monticola) Western white pine (Pinus monticola)
sugar pine (Pinus Lambertiana) Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana)
yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa)
Jeffreyi variety of yellow pine Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi)
Douglas spruce (Pseudotsuga Douglasii) Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
incense cedar (Libocedrus decurrens) Incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens)
silver fir (Abies magnifica) California red fir (Abies magnifica)
white silver fir (Abies concolor) White fir (Abies concolor)
tamarack pine (Pinus contorta var. Murrayana) Sierra lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. murrayana)
red cedar (Juniperus occidentalis) Western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis)
mountain hemlock (Tsuga Mertensiana) Mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana)
California black oak (Quercus Californica) California black oak (Quercus kelloggii)
mountain live-oak or goldcup oak (Quercus chrysolepis) Canyon live oak (Quercus chrysolepis)
poplar or balm of Gilead (Populus trichocarpa) Black cottonwood (Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa)
Nuttall's flowering dogwood Pacific dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)
broad-leaved maple Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum)
common aspen Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides)
California nutmeg (Tumion Californicum) California nutmeg (Torreya californica)