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 Western 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 (i. 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. 



