Forest trees of the Pacific slope . is chalky-white. The deeplyfissured, bright cinnamon-brown bark of mature trunks (with squarish plates)is also very characteristic. Height, from 35 to occasionally 60 feet, and diam-eter, from 10 to 30 inches. Trunks are clothed with short branches, below thelong upper ones, for one-half or two-thirds of their length: fairly straight, butrough with knots and the swelled bases of branches, and usually taperingrapidly in the upper half. The foliage, which is a bright lilue-green, covers the 40 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. cutis of tlu braiiclios vtM-y dc
Forest trees of the Pacific slope . is chalky-white. The deeplyfissured, bright cinnamon-brown bark of mature trunks (with squarish plates)is also very characteristic. Height, from 35 to occasionally 60 feet, and diam-eter, from 10 to 30 inches. Trunks are clothed with short branches, below thelong upper ones, for one-half or two-thirds of their length: fairly straight, butrough with knots and the swelled bases of branches, and usually taperingrapidly in the upper half. The foliage, which is a bright lilue-green, covers the 40 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. cutis of tlu braiiclios vtM-y dcMiscly for 10 to IO inches; tliis close, tail-likearniiijieiiient of the leaves sujisesteil the conmion name of the tree. The leaves,a in a IniiuUe ( Hj;. ID. are curved and closely pressed to the hranch. Someof the years jirowth of leaves fall durinj: the eighth or ninth year, but mostof them i»ersist until the tenth or twelfth year. The cones (fig. II) arematured hv the middle or end of Au^ust of the second year, when they are a. Pio. 11.—Iiiius hiilfouriana: u, seeds. deep imrple. They shed their seeils (fig. II, a) in September, at whlcli time thetips of the scales are a dark red-brown or russet-brown. Cones fall from thetrees during late autumn or in winter. The seeds are blotched and speckledwith dull i)uri)le. Seed leaves, regularly ^. Wood, soft, light, yellow-brown,very close-grained and brittle; suitable for secoud-class lumber, but rarely used.
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