476 A HANDBOOK OF CONIFERS 



large, 3| to 7 in. long, with straight, erect bracts. — P. 

 macrocarpa. 



Leaves bifid or notched at the apex. 



Branchlets glabrous. Leaves about 1 in. long. Cones small, 

 about 1 1 in. long, with short reflexed bracts. — P. jaj)onica. 

 Branchlets pubescent. 



Leaves \\ in. long. Cones 2 in. long, with short reflexed 



bracts. — P. sinensis. 

 Leaves nearly 2 in. long. Cones 2\ in. long, with long 



reflexed bracts. — P. Forrestii. 

 Leaves | in. long. Cones 2 to 2| in. long, with short 

 reflexed bracts. — P. Wilsoniana. 



Pseudotsuga Douglasii, Carriere. (Fig. 103.) 

 Oregon Douglas Fir. 



Pseudotsuga mucronata, Sudworth ; P. taxifolia, Britton ; Pinus 

 taxifolia, Lambert ; Abies Douglasii, Lindley ; Abietia Douglasii, Kent. 

 Cork-barked Douglas Spruce ; Douglas Fir ; Douglas Spruce ; Douglas 

 Tree ; Oregon Pine ; Puget Sound Pine ; Red Fir ; Red Pine ; Spruce ; 

 Yellow Fir. 



A tree attaining on the Pacific Coast 300 ft. or more in height 

 and sometimes 40 ft. in girth. ^ Upper branches horizontal, 

 lower branches depressed, often very long, sometimes sweeping 

 the ground. Bark of old trees up to 12 in. in thickness, corky, 

 deeply fissured into broad ridges. Young shoots yellowish green 

 at first, becoming greyish with age, minutely hairy. Winter 

 buds with little or no resin. Foliage fragrant when bruised. 

 Leaves pectinate, with a V-shaped arrangement between the two 

 lateral sets, deep green, straight, 1-1| in. long, thin, acute or 

 rounded at the apex. Mature cones 3-4 in. long, l|-2 in. wide, 

 light brown with numerous thin scales which are |-| in. wide, 

 and slightly convex, minutely hairy on the outer surface ; bracts 

 straight erect, longer than the scales, three-lobed, with a central 

 slender awn and two shorter, lateral lobes. Seed \ in. long, dark 

 shining brown, mottled beneath. 



Var. anguina, nobis. 



Snaky Douglas Fir. 



A small tree with much the habit of the snake spruce (Picea 

 excelsa var. monstrosa). Branches few, long and rambling, 

 branchlets few or none. Leaves longer, about 2 in. Endsleigh, 

 Devon. 



Var. brevifolia. 



Leaves smaller than in the type. 



^ The well-known flagstaff at Kew, erected in 1919, consists of a single spar 

 of Douglas fir, 214 ft. high, 2 ft. 9 in. in diameter at the base, and 12 in. at the 

 top, its weight on shipment being 18 tons. 



