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FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



blue-green, that of the season with a silvery tinge. The twigs, sometimes smooth, 

 commonly have minute, rusty hairs for two to three years, and the buds are cov- 

 ered with resin. The flat leaves (fig. 38), pointless and longer on lower crown 

 branches and keenly or somewhat pointed and shorter on uppermost branches, 



are distinctively massed and pointing upward on the top sides of the branches, 

 those below and on the sides of the branches being twisted so as to join those 

 above. The dense crowding of the leaves on the upper sides of the branches 

 is very characteristic. Mature cones, before swelling and beginning to break up 



