TSUGA MERTENSIANA. 



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a slender stipes of about the same Isngth, surrounded at the base by 

 broadly ovate involucral bracts in three series; anthers club-shaped with 

 a purplish violet connective. Cones shortly stalked, cylindric-fusiform, 

 2 2-5 inches long, at first violet-purple changing to brown when mature; 

 scales obovate-cuneate, minutely rugose or striated longitudinally on the 

 exposed side; bract minute, closely appressed to the scale. Seeds 

 small with a relatively large oblong wing. 



Tsuga Mertensiana, Sargent, Silva X. Amer. XII. 77, t. 606 (not Carriere). 



T. Pattoniana, Engelniann in Brewer and Watson's Bot. Califor. II. 121 (1880). 

 Macoim, Cat. Cauad. Plants, 473. Masters in Gard. Chron. XII. ser. 3 (1892), p. 10, 

 witli tig ; and Jourii. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 255. Beissner, Nadelholzk, 407, with figs. 



T. Hookeriana, Camere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 252 (1867). 



Fig. 117. Branchlet and cone of Tsuga Mertensiana. 



Abies Pattoniana, Balfour, Rep. Oregon Assoc. 1 (1853). Lawsou, Pinet. Brit. I 

 157, t. 22. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 30. 



A. Hookeriana, Murray in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 289 (1855). Lawson, Pinet. 

 Brit. II. 153, tt. 21, 22. 



A. Williamsonii, Newberry, Pacif. Ry. Rep. VI. 53, t. 7 (1857). 



Pinus Mertensiana, Bongard, Veg. de Sitcha, 54 (1832). Mem de 1'Acad. St. 

 Petersb. II. 163. Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 111. 



P. Pattoniana, Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 429. 



Tsuga Mertensiana has a meridional range in north- west America 

 from south-eastern Alaska through British Columbia, Washington and 

 Oregon into California as far as the sources of the King river ; it 

 also has a considerable spread laterally on both sides of the 



