Pinaceae 29 



apex; cones pendent on long stout stems, 

 2-4 J inches long, with thin slightly concave 

 scales; bracts often extending half an inch 

 beyond the scales. 



Throughout the Rockies in the lower 

 wooded valleys, the handsomest tree of this 

 section especially when young, now rather 

 rare in the mature state along the line of 

 the railway, but may be so seen to perfec- 

 tion in the Yoho and some of the other out- 

 lying valleys. 



A tree frequently 200 feet high, 



het^rophylla with a trunk 6 ~ 10 feet in diam ~ 

 (Raf.) Sarg. eter, with short slender usually 

 Western pendulous branches forming a 



Hemlock. narrow p yram idal head; bark 

 orange-brown, thin when young, an inch 

 or more thick on mature trees and divided, 

 into broad flat ridges; leaves flat, dark green 

 and lustrous on the upper surface, marked 

 below by broad white bands; cones sessile, 

 oblong or oval, f-i inch long with few yellow- 

 ish-brown oblong scales abruptly contracted 



