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FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



and lower branches which droop decidedly at their ends. Twigs of the year 

 are smooth, with distant light-colored specks, and reddish yellow; the dull 

 red buds are coated with light-colored, scaly down. Mature leaves are charac- 

 terized by light yellow-green upper surfaces and, particularly, by their usually 



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Fig. 115. — Ainu? rhombifoUa. 



jRne-toothed, wavy borders (tigs. 115, 11G). which are curled a little toward the 

 under surface, the gland-tipped teeth, of different sizes, standing out irregu- 

 larly. The toothed border, only rarely somewhat double toothed, differs greatly 

 from the rather regularly double-toothed borders of leaves on other Pacific 



