PINACE.E 



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high, with a girth of 10-12 ft. Bark thin on young stems, on old 

 trees thick with small, thin surface scales. Branches short. 

 Young shoots reddish brown or orange red, glabrous or with 

 minute scattered hairs. Buds conic, acute, about \ in. long. 



Fig. 1\.—PICEA EXCELSA. 



a, spray from above, b from side ; c, winter buds ; d, under-surface of shoot and leaves ; e, section 



of leaf ; /, seed. 



with reddish-brown scales. Leaves persistent for several years, 

 those on the upper side of the shoot more or less overlapping and 

 pomting forwards, those on the lower side spreading right and 

 left, and exposing the shoot ; rhombic in section, |-1 in, long, 

 stiff, straight or curved, ending in a blunt, horny point ; with 



