Leaves usually rounded and obtuse at apex, dark yellow-green or rarely blue-green; cones 2′—4½′ long, their bracts much exserted. 1. P. taxifolia (B, E, F, G, H). Leaves acuminate at apex, bluish gray; cones 4′—6½′ long, their bracts slightly exserted. 2. P. macrocarpa (G). 1. Pseudotsuga taxifolia Britt. Douglas Spruce. Red Fir. _Pseudotsuga mucronata Sudw._ [Illustration: Fig. 50] Leaves straight or rarely slightly incurved, rounded and obtuse at apex, or acute on leading shoots, ¾′—1¼′ long, 1/16′—1/12′ wide, dark yellow-green or rarely light or dark bluish green, occasionally persistent until their sixteenth year. Flowers: male orange-red; female with slender elongated bracts deeply tinged with red. Fruit pendant on long stout stems, 4′—6½′ long, with thin slightly concave scales rounded and occasionally somewhat elongated at apex, usually rather longer than broad, when fully grown at midsummer slightly puberulous, dark blue-green below, purplish toward the apex, bright red on the closely appressed margins, and pale green bracts becoming slightly reflexed above the middle, ⅕′—¼′ wide, often extending ½′ beyond the scales; seeds light reddish brown and lustrous above, pale and marked below with large irregular white spots, ¼′ long, nearly ⅛′ wide, almost as long as their dark brown wings broadest just below the middle, oblique above and rounded at the apex.