SECTION II 

 TREES 



YEW 



Taxus brcvifolia. Yew Family 



A tree twenty to fifty feet high, with slender, spreading or drooping 

 branches. Leaves: flat, mucronate, acuminate, cuspidate, the margins 

 revolute, abruptly narrowed at the base into a short petiole. Fruit: 

 seeds broadly ovate, somewhat flattened. 



A beautiful tree with thin bark, and dark red-purple 

 scales, whose long branches are usually horizontal. The 

 leaves are bright yellow-green above, covered with a white 

 bloom beneath, and are persistent for four or five years. 

 The fruit is a lovely red, fleshy cup, containing a black, 

 bony-coated seed. 



WHITE-BARK PINE 



Pinus albicaulis. Pine Family 



An evergreen tree with rather smooth, light-coloured bark. Leaves: 

 slender, rigid, with a few rows of dorsal stomata on the inside, entire, 

 or nearly so. Flowers: scarlet. Fruit: cones maturing the second 

 year, sessile, horizontal, subterminal, oval to globular, purplish-brown; 

 seeds oval, acute, turgid. 



This tree grows from twenty to fifty feet high,' usually at 

 altitudes between 5,000 and 7,000 feet, and is distinguished 

 by the creamy-white, plate-like scales of the bark; very, 

 flexible stout branches; slightly incurved leaves, growing 

 in bundles of five; and horizontal purplish-brown cones 



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