es eee Yellow Fine. ——_>A massive, strik 
2 tall, Cherecterined=pyeig with 
pright cinnamon DOWN exfusbiae mature bark and ts "long needles. Trunk of 
mature tregs a a a but gradual taper, when in denser. stands clear — 
for about P- 
from the l A8@s, more or less scaly; young bark rather dark grey, rough 
and rather scurfy, marked by the needle scars, soon becoming fissured, ; 
reddish tinged, often scaly, the mature bark qRmqremeeedmbacmm> 7-10 CMe 
thici:, furrowed, the furrows black, dividing the bark into fairly regular 
plate 12-15 cm. "broad , 60-100 cm. Long's the surface @@@gmk of small concave 
scales. Crown oblong, commonly persistent nearly to the base, the- branches 
spreading but curving markedly at the ends, bearing dense tufts of. foliage; 
foliage yellowish green but dark, tne needles deciduous about the third year, 
3 (less commonly 4) per fascicle, 15-20 cm. long, 1-5-1.8 mm. wide, 3-angled, | 
apex acute, the margins minutely toothed, the base closely sheathed , the scales | 
more or less versistent. sStaminate cones borne in clusters at the base of the — 
new srowth throughout the crown, purple, elongating to 2.5-5 cm. Ovulate 
cones borne throughout the crown, narrowly ovate before opening, sessile, 
spreading at risht angles to the branch, 7-12 cm. long, ovate to oblong-ovate 
when opened, tne scales ratner thin, oblong-truncate and rounded at the apex, 
2-5-5 Cite lons, mahogany beneath, brown above, tne umbo brown, sub-pyramidal, 
armed with a sharp mucro 1-2 mm. lonz; seeds 67 imme long, dull brown, the 
wing wedge-shaped, about & cm. lons. ‘the cones in falling leave a small 
tuft of basal scaies on the branch and infrequently persist the year following 
maturity. Seedlings 6-G cm. tall, the hypocotyls brown, striate; cotyledons 
9-10, 4-5 cm. lon.; sirst leaves serrulate, glaucous 1.5-2.5 mn. longs. 
me climax tree of 2 narrow belt mer:ing witn the grassland. Rarely 
observed as hich as 5500 feet anu infrequent above 5500 fest. ‘ound chiefly 
around the marzins of the lakes or low, broad valleys, associated here 
esvecially with Fseugotsusa taxifolia and Larix occiuentalis, and on flav 
eround at the edz of the erassland, associated here with Pinus contorta 
or forming wure.onen stands of small dimensions. Is frequent on the sloves or : 
the Yootenai Valley, covering fairly extecsive areas there, pure or With ; 
Tsewotsuga taxifolia. 
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