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to withstand much more severe winter cold than 
the latter tree, it-reaches farther inland in the 
northern part of its range, ‘“This) tree sditiers 
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 fir, and the likeness is 
emphasized in many cases by the erect cones 
which, 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 Pinus Mertensiana of Bon- 
gard, collected on Baranoff island, is undoubt- 
edly this species and not the following, as has 
been generally assumed. 
Section 3. sug. Carriere. Praité Comiaansre 
Logs. IM part, as Senus. 
Leaves flat, narrowly linear, slender petioled, 
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. 
