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with short usually pendulous branches forming a narrow-pyramidal head; buds globose-ovoid, obtuse; branchlets yellow-brown changing to dark red-brown, pubescent for 5 to 6 years, and with long pale hairs while young. Leaves linear, 6-18 mm. long, rounded at apex, shining dark green and grooved above with broad white bands beneath. Cone sessile 2-2'5 cm. long; scales ob ovate, longer than broad, puberulous outside. Native of N. America from S. Alaska to Idaho and Oalifornia. In-troduced to Britain in 1851. The two Kentish plants were small, the larger being about a metre high, and they appeared well established in semi-natural woodland; occurring in the higher, drier part of the wood, on somewhat podsolised Tunbridge Wells Sand, which supported a typical dry acid woodland fiora. The most frequent and conspicuous species in the immediate neighbourhood were:-Quercus robur-d