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

108 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
blue-green, that of the season wvith a silvery thinge. The twigs, sometimes smooth,
commonly have minute, rusty hairs for two to three years, ~and the buds are covered
with resin. The flat leaves (fig. 38), pointless and longer on lower crown
branches and keenly or souinewhiat p)ointed and shorter on upperiaost branches,
are distinctively massed and pointing upwvard on the top) sidles of the branches,
those below and on the sides of the br~anclhes being twisted so as to join those
above. The dense crowding of the leaves on the upper sides of the branches
is very characteristic. Mlature cones, before swvelling and beginning to break up
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