. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 84 The Firs 5 cm. thick, is deeply furrowed into broad ridges, which are broken into closely adherent reddish brown scales; that of yovmger trees is much thinner, smooth, and paler. The slender twigs are covered with short hairs, light red-brown, gradually becoming smooth and darker with age. The ovoid winter buds are 6 mm. long, resinous, and covered by sharp-pointed brown scales. The leaves are to 4 cm. long, light
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. 84 The Firs 5 cm. thick, is deeply furrowed into broad ridges, which are broken into closely adherent reddish brown scales; that of yovmger trees is much thinner, smooth, and paler. The slender twigs are covered with short hairs, light red-brown, gradually becoming smooth and darker with age. The ovoid winter buds are 6 mm. long, resinous, and covered by sharp-pointed brown scales. The leaves are to 4 cm. long, light green; those on the lower branches are spreading, somewhat flattened,. Fig. 64. — Noble Fir. deeply grooved on the upper surface, keeled beneath, rounded or notched at the apex; those on the upper fertile branches are erect, incurved, and crowded, thick, nearly 4-sided, and sharp-pointed. The staminate flowers are cylindric, to cm. long, of a reddish or purple color, the pistillate flowers also cylindric, to 4 cm. long. The cones are cylindric-oblong, somewhat narrowed at the base and the apex, 10 to 15 cm. long, finely hairy, purpUsh or brown and character- ized by the projecting recurved tips of the bracts; the fan-shaped scales are about cm. wide, and about as long; the papery bracts about 4 cm. long, with fringed margins and long tapering point, project beyond and are reflexed over the cone- scales so as to almost cover them. The brown seed, about i cm. long, is provided with a very broad Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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