CONE-BEARERS. 55 



Sec. 2. Feather-Coned Pendants. 



JExsertce. 



Cones sub-terminal, arising just below the leading 

 buds, the three-parted, feather-like bracts greatly de- 

 veloped and protruding from between the cone-scales. 

 The buds of both kinds, leaf and flowering, are re- 

 markably large, with few large, brown, shining scales, 

 Male flowers sub-terminal from the axils of last year's 

 leaves. 



One Genus, peculiar to \Yestern America: 



Fifth Genus, PSEUDOTSUCA. 



Carriere. 

 THE FALSE HEMLOCK SPRUCES 



The branchlets of the False Hemlock-Spruce are 

 smooth, the flat leaf-scars transversely oval, the leaves 

 petioled (i. e., narrowed at base), the bracts of the 

 cones are three-parted and much longer than the 

 scales (L e., they are exserted from between the scales 

 of the cone, like feathers), and the seeds are devoid 

 of resin vesicles. Male flowers large, distributed 

 along the branchlets in last year's leaf-axils. The 

 leaf and flower buds are remarkably large. 



