is the newly-discovered Weeping Spruce (P. 

 Breweriana), on the western end of the Sis- 

 kiyou Mountains, in splintered rocks of the 

 summit. Remarkable for its very long, droop- 

 ing branchlets, two to six feet long, giving the 

 tree the appearance of a weeping willow. 

 This beautiful tree ought to be in cultivation, 

 but efforts to that end thus far have proved 

 unsuccessful. 



HEMLOCK SPRUCES 



Space admits of little more than brief allu- 

 sions to the lovely Hemlock Spruces (Tsuga), 

 one species (Ts. hetcrophylla) in the northern 

 coast counties, with its pea-green, convex 

 sprays of foliage, decorated on the border with 

 brown, ovoid, half-inch cones; the other (Ts. 

 Mertensiana), sub-alpine and scattered among 

 the giants from end to end of the Sierra, its 

 exceedingly graceful appearance, with depend- 

 ing branches, clothed with dark-green, tufted 

 foliage, and decorated with large, purple cones 

 one and one-half to two inches long, the larg- 

 est of the hemlocks. This royal evergreen, 

 sparsely present in every mass of forest in 

 the High Sierra, always claims instant atten- 

 tion and admiration from visitors to the high 

 regions, and not inaptly it is called "Queen 

 of the Sierra." 



In concluding this introduction to Califor- 

 nia spruces the principal points for recogni- 

 tion may be recapitulated, as ; spire-like form 

 of tree, with graceful, declining limbs ; the 

 cones terminal, dependent, and remaining 

 whole at maturity; leaves solitary and scat- 

 tered, these characters strongly contrasting 

 with the next group. 



THE TRUE FIRS 



This, the last family of Pitch Trees to be 

 described, is the most marked in its modes ot 



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