190 Postelsia 
after they have fallen. The ground beneath 
old trees is commonly well covered with seed- 
lings, but they are rarely seen at any distance 
irom the panent trees: 
Abies nobilis (D. Don) Lindley, Penny Cycl. 
LevO.bOo 3: 
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 Oregon and northward into 
the Olympic Mountains, and along the Cascade 
range to Mt. Baker. It as not reported mom 
Vancouver Island, and probably does not occur 
there: 
SUB-FAMILY CUPRESSINE 
Foliage and floral leaves opposite or in 
whorls, 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 
