24 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



sented in the forests at Hope, but as subordinate constituents, 

 the Douglas fir being able to monopolise the larger portion of 

 the ground, and tending to form pure forests. Sitka spruce and 

 Finns monticola are absent. 



The cones collected at Hope and Vancouver are alike in all 

 respects save that the former are considerably smaller than 

 the Vancouver specimens. The cones from Hope are about 

 2| inches long and i|- inch broad, with scales i inch wide. 

 The Vancouver cones are 3^^ inches long and proportionately 

 wide, with scales i^ inch broad. In both cases the cones are 

 of a light chestnut colour. The bracts, leaving the awn out of 

 account, are slightly shorter than the scales in the lower half of 

 the cones and slightly longer in the upper half. They have long 

 lateral lobes, the inner edges of which meet at an angle which 

 is markedly acute. The length of the lateral lobes is about half 

 that of the awns, in which respect there is a noteworthy 

 difference between Vancouver cones and those collected at 

 Kamloops and Craigellachie, where the length of the lobes is 

 not more than l to ^ that of the awns. The seed and wings 

 are about | inch long, the latter being pale in colour. The 

 seeds are of a reddish-lustrous-brown colour on the upper 

 surface and a lighter shade of brown with whitish spots below. 

 They are about \ inch long and ^ inch wide. 



The plants grown from the Hope and Vancouver seed have 

 the typical characteristics of Coast variety seedlings. The 

 terminal buds resemble in shape those of the Kamloops seed- 

 lings, but are of a light-brown colour (light-chestnut) and non- 

 resinous. They are ovoid with the upper portions of the bud 

 cone-shaped. The seedlings did not ripen off their shoots until 

 late in the season, although the Vancouver plants were more 

 satisfactory in this respect than those from Hope. The cotyle- 

 dons vary in length from | inch to over an inch, and are from 

 5 to 7 in number. They are triangular in section, with smooth 

 edges and two rows of stomata on the upper surface. The 

 primary leaves are of a light-green (grass green) colour, about 

 ^-| inch in length, and curl upwards so as to completely conceal 

 the terminal buds. 



I might here mention that I found it extremely difficult to 

 get Douglas fir cones in the Coast forests at Hope and west- 

 wards in an uninjured condition with sound seed, although I 

 experienced no difficulty in getting good cones in the Interior 



