Forest trees of the Pacific slope . Fig. 28.—Larix hniciiia: a, scale at base of cone; 6. scale near base; c, scales fromcenter of cone; d, scales near top of cone; c, top scale of cone; all li natural size;/, seed natural size. Yukon and Al.\ska.—Pacific slope of Rocky Mountains in Yukon territory and .\laska,crossing Rockies on Liard River at about latitude 59°, and extending up Dease, upper 76 FOKEST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. Liard, and Francis rivers nearly to Finlayson Lake (lat. 61° 35). Locally noted onFrancis Lake. Francis liiver at mouth. Ueappears in central Alaska (long. 145° 45 t
Forest trees of the Pacific slope . Fig. 28.—Larix hniciiia: a, scale at base of cone; 6. scale near base; c, scales fromcenter of cone; d, scales near top of cone; c, top scale of cone; all li natural size;/, seed natural size. Yukon and Al.\ska.—Pacific slope of Rocky Mountains in Yukon territory and .\laska,crossing Rockies on Liard River at about latitude 59°, and extending up Dease, upper 76 FOKEST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. Liard, and Francis rivers nearly to Finlayson Lake (lat. 61° 35). Locally noted onFrancis Lake. Francis liiver at mouth. Ueappears in central Alaska (long. 145° 45 to158° 40) in valley of lower Yukon, upper Koyokuk, Tanana, and Upper Kuskokwim rivers,extending north to latitude 07 on Koynkuk River and south to headwaters of KuskokwimRiver (lat. 63°) ; extends from river valleys to 1,050 feet. Locally noted on Yukon from. Fig. 28a.—Larix alaskcnsts: a, fruiting branch; h, Ijack of cone scale; c, a cone scalewith ovules; d, bract of cone scale—enlarged; e, bract of cone scale of Larix ameri-cana—enlarged. Kaltag near Norton Bay (long. 158° 40) at least up to mouth of Tanana; Minook Creek(southern tributary Yukon above Tanana) ; upper Koyukuk River from Bettles down atleast to Bergman ; Tanana River and tributaries as follows : Main valley, one patch between Goodpastor and Salcha rivers (lat. 145° 45, east limit now known), SalchaRiver, two patches on small tributaries; Cantwell Uiver, one patch on east side near FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 77 mouth ; Kantishna River, one patch between head and Toklat River ; Tolovana River, twopatches on nortli tributaries; Baker Creek, one patch on head tributary; KuskokwimRiver, noted on its tributary Tonzona River. Also reported from upper Copper River. The detailed range of tamarack east of the Pacific region will be dealt within a future bulletin. OC
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