176 IP 6 t e I s t a 



to withstand much more severe winter cold than 

 the latter tree, it reaches farther inland in the 

 northern part of its range. This tree differs 

 entirely from the true hemlocks in its appearance. 

 Its stout twigs with their thick, bluntly pointed, 

 closely packed leaves projecting in every di- 

 rection from the stem, gives it the appearance of 

 some species of balsam hr, and the likeness is 

 em])hasized in many cases by the erect cones 

 whicli, however, are not axillary, but terminal on 

 short lateral leafy branchlets. 



Sargent (*) has pointed out that both this 

 tree and the following grow in the vicinity of 

 Sitka, and that the Piints Mcrtaisiana oi Bon- 

 gard, collected on Baranoff island, is undoubt- 

 edly this species and not the following, as has 

 been generally assumed. 



Section 3. Tsiiga. Carriere. Traite Conif. 185. 

 1855. in part, as genus. 



Leaves flat, narrowly linear, slender pctioled, 

 inserted upon small persistent woody bases, 

 spirally arranged and apparently two-ranked by 

 the twisting of the petioles; leaf with stomata 



* Sargent C. S. Sylva. 12:75. 1898. 



