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brown surface. The foliage varies from a pale to a deep bluish-green, 

 generally with a silvery tinge. The leaves, straight to curved, are plainly 

 channeled on their upper surfaces, and arranged so that they appear to grow all 

 in a crowded mass from the top sides of the branches (fig. 50). Those of the 



lower branches are flat and commonly with a notch at the end. while those 

 of the uppermost branches (fig. 50) are conspicuously 4-angled, very densely 

 massed, and usually sharp-pointed; those of the leaders are flatfish and needle 

 pointed. Lower branch leaves ax'e longer (about 1 Inch to 1J inches) than 



