Forest trees of the Pacific slope . ight from the stem in distant whorls orgroups, while the closely-leafed branchlets appear like stiff fingers against thesky. The heavy lower branches sometimes droop. Young trees 10 or 12 inchesthick often bear their characteristically oi)en. conical crown down tothe ground. The short branches stand out , almost straight, from thesmooth grayish-brown trunks. liark of old trees is rather thin—about Ij to I4inches thick—and very characleristically divided l>y narrow seams into flat,narrow ridges. These are broken into long, irregular plates,
Forest trees of the Pacific slope . ight from the stem in distant whorls orgroups, while the closely-leafed branchlets appear like stiff fingers against thesky. The heavy lower branches sometimes droop. Young trees 10 or 12 inchesthick often bear their characteristically oi)en. conical crown down tothe ground. The short branches stand out , almost straight, from thesmooth grayish-brown trunks. liark of old trees is rather thin—about Ij to I4inches thick—and very characleristically divided l>y narrow seams into flat,narrow ridges. These are broken into long, irregular plates, which are softand flake off easily, revealing a clear, dark reddish-brown beneath the ashy- FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 129 brown surface. The foliage varies from a pale to a deep bluish-green,generally with a silvery tinge. The leaves, straight to curved, are plainlychanneled on their upper surfaces, and arranged so that they appear to grow allin a crowded mass from the top sides of the branches (fig. 50). Those of the. lower branches are flat and commonly with a notch at the end, while thoseof the uppermost branches (fig. 50) are conspicuously 4-angled, very denselymassed, and usually sharp-pointed; those of the leaders are flattish and needlepointed. Lower i)ranch leaves are longer (about 1 inch to IJ inches) than 130 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. the upper branch leaves, which are five-eighths to three-fourths of an inchlong. The short, curved, densely massed, stiff leaves of this tree are particu-larly distinctive, and wholly unlike in these features those of any other Arueri-
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