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after they have fallen. The ground beneath 

 old trees is commonly well covered with seed- 

 lings, but they are rarely seen at any distance 

 from the parent trees. 



Abies uobilis (D. Don) Lindley, Penny Cycl. 

 1:30.1833. 



A tree with large cones, the spatulate bracts of 

 which are much exserted, and blue-green leaves, 

 tetragonal and grooved along the upper sides, 

 occurs in western (Jrcgon and northward into 

 the Olympic Mountains, and along the Cascade 

 range to Mt. Baker. It is not reported from 

 Vancouver Island, and probably does not occur 

 there. 



SUB-FAMILY CUPRESSINE^. 



Foliage and floral leaves opposite or in 

 wdiorls, or the foliage leaves very rarely scattered 

 on sterile shoots; often heterophyllous. Flowers 

 solitary; staminate flower consisting of an axis 

 bearing four to eight whorls of stamens, each 

 stamen having three to five pollen sacs; pis- 

 tillate flower consisting of an axis bearing one 

 to few whorls of fertile carpels, often with other 

 whorls of specialised sterile scales above or below 



