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Season's twigs, minutely hairy when young and thickly glandular-dotted, are 

 clear, shiny, yellowish brown, and marked with rather large light-colored specks. 

 Mature leaves (figs. 119, 120)— when young notably sticky, with numerous 

 glandular specks— thin and papery, smooth, yellowish green on their top sides ; 



Pig. 120. — Ainu* sitchenais: ". seed, natural size and enlarged. 



much lighter yellow-green and shiny beneath, somewhat as if thinly varnished, 

 or sometimes minutely brown-hairy on the midveins and in the corners of the 

 side veins. Male (lower Clusters aboui 3 to 5 inclies long and one-third of an 

 inch thick. Mature cones (fig. 120), from five-eighths to three-fourths of an 



