PINACEAE., 45 
1. Leaves abruptly contracted to the sharp tip. 2. 
Leaves rather gradually acute. 3. | 
2. Tree or tall shrub. T. cuspidata. 
Low compact shrub. T. cuspidata nana. 
3. Leaves normally dark green. 4. 
Leaves rather yellowish green: very low shrub. T. canadensis. 
Ase rees; 75. 
Low and trailing. T. baccata procumbens. 
5. Round-topped. 6. 
Fyramidal. 8. 
6. [eaves green. 7. 
Leaves yellow. T. baccata aurea. 
Leaves whitish-striped. T. baccata argentea. 
7. Fruit red. "Er, "paceata: 
Fruit yellow. T. baccata fuctu-luteo. 
8. Leaves green. T. baccata fastigiata. 
Leaves yellow. ' TT. baccata fastigiata variegata. 
TorreEYA, California Nutmeg. 
Evergreen trees with yellowish ductless soft wood without 
resin-passages; rather slender twigs; alternate somewhat raised 
transversely elliptical small leaf-scars with a single bundle-trace ; 
no stipule-scars; ovoid buds with several keeled scales; linear 
mucronate flat leaves, white-lined beneath; monoecious catkin- or 
cone-like naked flowers; and rather large drupe-like fruits. 
1. Leaves (25-30 mm.) and bud-scales long. T. californica. 
Leaves (scarcely 25 mm.) and bud-scales short. 2. 
2. Buds light brown: pale lines of leaves broad.  T. taxifolia. 
Buds red-brown: pale lines of leaves narrow. T. nucifera. 
Family PINACEAE. Conifer Family. 
An ancient family of relatively few chiefly evergreen genera 
and species, but these widespread and often very numerous in 
individuals forming conifer forests of large extent and furnish- 
ing the principal “soft woods” of temperate regions. Largely 
employed for windbreaks and evergreen effects; characteristically 
trees, but likely to occur in shrubby form. 
