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cylindrical or oval, their scales truncate or acute 

 at the apex, or obovate and rounded, erose- 

 dentate or entire; seeds black, about half as 

 long as their broad oblique wings. 



Not reported from Vancouver Island, but 

 possibly occurring on some of the higher moun- 

 tains. This is the common spruce of the in- 

 terior, occurring in the Rocky, Selkirk and 

 Cascade Mountains of British Columbia and 

 southward to New Mexico, Arizona and Oregon. 

 It can be readily distinguished from the tideland 

 spruce by its pubescent twigs and quadrangular 

 leaves, which have a strong disagreeable odor. 

 The cones of the two species are very similar, 

 and despite the difference in foliage, mistakes 

 in identification appear not to be rare. 

 Section 2. Hesperopeuce Lemmon, Report 

 California State Board Forestry. 3:126.1890. 



as genus. 



Leaves narrowly linear, slender-petioled, in- 

 serted upon small persistent, woody sterigmata, 

 spirally arranged, spreading, stomatiferous on 

 all sides, without palisade tissue, with abundant 

 hypodermal sclerenchyma, and with a single 



