madrone

Gaunt pines clothed its rocky slope, intermingled with clumps of chaparral and the glossy-leaved madrone bushes.

In front was a precipitous cliff studded with dwarf madrone trees and the twisted manzanita.

The madrone, richly leaved like the laurel, reflects the sunlight from a bole glistening as though freshly carved from wet gold.

She had said that "Anne wath mad wiv her, and that Alix--" she managed to lisp the name, "wath up in the madrone!"

The wood of the madrone is hard and close-grained, of a light brown, shaded with red, with lighter-colored sap-wood.