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Title: Forest trees of the Pacific slope
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: United States. Forest Service Sudworth, George Bishop, 1862-1927
Subjects: Trees Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington Govt. Print. Off
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ed and stand slightly away from the stems. This makes thefoliage prickly to the touch. Cones (fig. 04, a) mature at the end of the secondsummer, shed their light chocolate-brown, flat seeds late in autumn, and usuallyremain attached to the tree for several or many seasons.o At maturity thecones are reddish chocolate-brown, with a pale ashy coating. They vary fromabout three-fourths to nearly an inch in length. Sixteen to 18 seeds (fig. 64. &)are borne under each perfect scale. The rather heavy, very narrowly winged Cones recently examined were found to be full of seed after adhering to the branchfor six years : moreover, the cone-scales were green and spongy, appearing to be a sub-stantial part of the living branch. 166 FOREST TREES OP THE PACIFIC SLOPE. seeds are not carried more than a tew rods away from the tree. Wood, exceed-ingly fine-grained, very light yellowish brown, and several pounds heavier percubic foot than that of the Gowen cypress. It is of no commercial use. More-
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FiG. 04.—Cup) ex SI IS Duiciiiihliind : a, conos ; 7>, seed, natural size and enlarged. over, the tree is too rare to have great importance in forest management, but itsability to thrive on dry, thinly covered slopes makes it worthy of investigationfor planting in barren situations. rOREST TREES OP THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 167 Longevity.—Very little is known of its age; fnller records are required.Trees from 5 to 8 inches in diameter are from 80 to 125 years old. Probablyonly moderately long-lived—not exceeding 200 to 250 years. RANGE. In widely separated groves in coast ranges of California from Siskiyous southward toNapa County ; also Sierra foothills of Shasta to Yuba counties. Occasional groves on dry hills and low slopes of northern coast mountains, from nearhead of Hooker Canyon (Napa Mountains, Sonoma County) and Mount ^Etna (centralNapa County) northward through Lake County to Red Mountain (east side of UkiahValley, Mendocino County). Lake County: Noted in gulch on Complexi

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