30 Pinaceae 



at the middle and purplish toward the 

 base. 

 Abundant throughout the Selkirks. 



Tree usually 70-100 feet high 



with a tapering trunk 2-5 feet 

 Mertensiana 



(Bong.) i n diameter and gracefully pen- 



Carr. dent slender branches and droop- 



Mountain j ng lateral Qnes; bark g^sh 

 Hemlock. n 



and scaly, on mature trees i-ij 

 inches thick divided into rounded ridges 

 with closely appressed cinnamon scales; 

 leaves more or less in clusters, standing out 

 all over the sides of the branches, rounded, 

 light bluish-green or in some pale blue J-i 

 inch long; cones sessile, cylindric, oblong, 

 narrowed toward the blunt apex and some- 

 what toward the base, pendulous, 1-3 inches 

 long, with thin scales usually as broad as 

 long,, with slightly thickened or erose mar- 

 gins, purplish-brown, 4 times as long as the 

 sharp, purple bract. 



On the slopes and exposed ridges through 

 the Selkirks, a most attractive tree. 



