A Simple Key to the Evergreens 



a. Foliage needle-like. 



h. Leaves arranged in bundles or 



tufts. 



c. Leaves arranged in bundles or 



two to six with a sheath at 



base. PINES 



cc. Many leaves arranged in tufts 

 without sheathsjat base and 

 shed in winter. LARCHES 



hh. Leaves set singly and scattered 

 along the branch. 

 c. Leaves flat, blunt at tip, pale 

 beneath and two-ranked on 

 twig, cones standing erect. 

 FIRS 

 cc. Cones drooping and the leaves 

 with little stalks. 



HEMLOCKS 



ccc. Leaves four-sided inY cross 

 section, sharp at tip, not 

 pale beneath. SPRUCES 



da. Foliage scale-like or spiny. 



h. Foliage scale-like small, flat- 

 tened, close pressed to the 

 twig, fruit very small cone. 

 WHITE CEDAR OR ARBORVITAE 

 66 . Foliage scale-like — not flattened 

 in four rows — Fruit a woody 

 globvilar cone. 



WHITE CEDAR 

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