is the newly-discovered Weeping Spruce (P. 
Breweriana), on the western end of the Sis¬ 
kiyou Mountains, in splintered rocks of the 
summit. Remarkable for its very long, droop¬ 
ing branchlets, two to six feet long, giving the 
tree the appearance of a weeping willow. 
This beautiful tree ought to be in cultivation, 
but efforts to that end thus far have proved 
unsuccessful. 
HEMLOCK SPRUCES 
Space admits of little more than brief allu¬ 
sions to the lovely Hemlock Spruces ( Tsuga ), 
one species (Ts. heterophylla) in the northern 
coast counties, with its pea-green, convex 
sprays of foliage, decorated on the border with 
brown, ovoid, half-inch cones; the other (Ts. 
Mertensiana ), sub-alpine and scattered among 
the giants from end to end of the Sierra, its 
exceedingly graceful appearance, with depend¬ 
ing branches, clothed with dark-green, tufted 
foliage, and decorated with large, purple cones 
one and one-half to two inches long, the larg¬ 
est of the hemlocks. This royal evergreen, 
sparsely present in every mass of forest in 
the High Sierra, always claims instant atten¬ 
tion and admiration from visitors to the high 
regions, and not inaptly it is called “Queen 
of the Sierra.” 
In concluding this introduction to Califor¬ 
nia spruces the principal points for recogni¬ 
tion may be recapitulated, as; spire-like form 
of tree, with graceful, declining limbs; the 
cones terminal, dependent, and remaining 
whole at maturity; leaves solitary and scat¬ 
tered, these characters strongly contrasting 
with the next group. 
THE TRUE FIRS 
This, the last family of Pitch Trees to be 
described, is the most marked in its modes of 
