CONIFERi^ 



purple ; Bark cinnamon-red to grey, tinged purple, narrow rounded ridges, 

 scaly ; Buds obtuse, puberulous, chestnut-brown ; Wood light, soft, not 

 strong, brittle, coarse-grained, liable to wind-shake and splinter, not durable 

 when exposed to air, light brown tinged red ; astringent inner bark much 

 used in U.S.A. and Canada for tanning. 



Introduced from N. America, 173G. Tsuga is the Japanese name. 



MOUNTAIN HEMLOCK, Tmga merteimana. 



Parks, gardens. April. 



Flowers monoecious ; Males on slender, pubescent, drooping stems, violet- 

 purple ; Females erect, bracts larger than scales, dark purple or yellow-green, 

 tips slender, reflexed ; Fruit a cone, sessile, oblong-cylindrical, }^-3 ins. long, 

 scales thin, cuneate, puberulous, margins erose, 4-5 times as long as bracts ; 

 seeds light brown, wings ^ in. long. 



Ijcaves spiral, 2-ranked, remote on leading shoots, crowded on laterals, 

 sometimes grooved on upper surface, slightly ribbed on lower, bluntly pointed, 

 bluish-green, \ in. long, persistent 3-4 years. 



An evergreen tree, 70-150 ft. ; Branches slender, pendant ; brancldets thin 

 and flexible, or stout and rigid, light reddish-brown, pubescent, becoming 

 greyish-brown and scaly ; Bark with rounded ridges, scaly, dark cinnamon-red 

 tinged blue or purple ; Buds acute, slender, deciduous subulate tips ; growth 

 rapid ; Wood light, soft, not strong, close-grained, pale brown or red. 



Introduced from N. America, 1851. 



JAPAN HEMLOCK SPRUCE, Tsuga sicholdl 



Parks, gardens. April. A species of neat and elegant habit, suitable for 



planting in confined spaces. 



Flowers montt'cious ; Fruit a cone, terminal and solitary, elliptic, blunt, 



1 in. long, J in. diani., scales 20-30, imbricated, coriaceous, slender at base, 



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