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

92 FOREST TREES OF THlE PACTFIC SLOPE.
that of old trunks is about 1 to 112 icheos thick, hard, and deeply furrowed;
the ridges are wide, flat, and irregularly connected wvith one another by narrower
cross-ridges: it is dark russet-brown, tinged with red. The foliage is
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deep, glossy, nuld yellow-greeni, and elotlhes thet branmchlets thickly, but the smnall
size of the leaves gives it a thin ippearamI(e. The leaves (fig. 34) appear to
grow mainly from two opposite sides of the brauichlets-a sort of coulb-like arrangemlent.
They are fat, grooved above, have a rounded eud, and a distinct
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