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FOEEST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



the upper branch leaves, which are five-eighths to three-fourths of an inch 

 long The short, curved, densely massed, stiff leaves of this tree are particu- 

 larly distinctive, and wholly unlike in these features those of any other Amen- 



Fig. 51.— Abies nobilis, slightly reduced; original 7i inches long: a, seed. 



can fir Leaf buds are rounded, oblong, and resin coated. The large bract- 

 covered cones (fig. 51) are most distinctive. None of our other firs have cones 

 like these. They are about 4* to 6 inches long by 21 to nearly 3 inches in thick- 



