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De I. VNER VEW D Forest Trees of the Pacific Slope

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72 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE.<br />

yellow late in autumn, when it is readily detected by its color on distant high,<br />

inaccessible peaks and crests. The leaves, from 30 to 40 or more in a cluster,<br />

are more or less 4-angled, and about 1 inch to 1s inches in length. A cross-<br />

FIG. 27.-Larixr lyallii: a, seed.<br />

section shows one resin-duct in each <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two angles <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> leaf. The cones<br />

mature in one season and are ripe early in August, opening soon afterwards and<br />

shedding <strong>the</strong>ir seed. By late autumn <strong>the</strong> cones have all fallen from <strong>the</strong> trees.<br />

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