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FOKEST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



names are applied also to other species it is hoped that the more appropriate 

 name, " bristle-cone pine," may replace them. The trunk is usually short, 





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Fig. 10. — Pinus aristata: a, seed, 

 from 15 to 30 feet high and from 12 to 18 inches in diameter, with a rather 

 wide, bushy crown of long, irregularly upright top limbs, and shorter, drooping 



