. Selected western flora [microform] : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta. Botany; Botanique; Botany; Botanique; Botany; Botanique. 6 SELECTED WESTERN FLORA. 1. L. luictnt, (Du Roi) Koch. Tamarack. Hackmatack. Cones roundish, connating o( a few scales. A slender tree with reddish bark and hard resinous wood. (£.. Americana, Michx.) Swamps, Alta. 3. PfCEA. Spruce. Leaves about } in. long, scattered on all sides of the stem, needle- shaped, stiff; cones pendulous, maturing the first year; otherwise resembling Pinus. 1. P. Miudinsii, (Mill.) B. S. P. White Sprdce. Branchlets smooth, leaves sle


. Selected western flora [microform] : Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta. Botany; Botanique; Botany; Botanique; Botany; Botanique. 6 SELECTED WESTERN FLORA. 1. L. luictnt, (Du Roi) Koch. Tamarack. Hackmatack. Cones roundish, connating o( a few scales. A slender tree with reddish bark and hard resinous wood. (£.. Americana, Michx.) Swamps, Alta. 3. PfCEA. Spruce. Leaves about } in. long, scattered on all sides of the stem, needle- shaped, stiff; cones pendulous, maturing the first year; otherwise resembling Pinus. 1. P. Miudinsii, (Mill.) B. S. P. White Sprdce. Branchlets smooth, leaves slender, somewhat pale green; cones cylindri- cal, deciduous. A fine tree with white wood, much used for hoth timlwr and decoration. (P. n'ha. Link.) Wet or sandy places, \lta. 2. P. muUna, (Mill.) B. S. P. Flo. 8. — Picea mariana. Black Sprdce. Branchlets pubescent, leaves shorter, stouter, and darker green than in the preceding; cones smaller, almost glob- ular, persistent. \ valuable tree much resembling the preceding and found in the same range. (P. niffra, Link.) 3 P. Engelminnii, (Parry) Engelm. Leaves J-1 in. long, four cornered, distributed singly and evenly along the branches; branchlets slightly pubescent; cones oval, about 2 in. long, the scales thin and blunt. A tall conical tree with reddish bark, but becoming shrubby at high elevations. Rocky Mts. 4. Abies. Fih. Leaves flattened, arranged on two sides of the branch; cones erect, maturing the first year, deciduous, 1 . A. balolniM (L.) Mill. Balsam. Leaves narrowly linear; cones cylindrical, violet-colored when immature. A conical shaped tree with rather smooth, gray bark, containing numerous blisters of resinous juice. E. and N. Man. to Lat. 5s° and north-westward. 5. THtfJA. Arbor VitM. Loavesappreased, imbricated, some awl-shaped and others .scale-like; cones of few scales, spreading at ma- turity. 1. T. ocddentUis, L. White Cedar. Leaves appressed in 4 rows on flat branchlets; scales of cones blunt. A Fi


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