Red spruce.

Cedar at Tignish.

specimens of these trees than can be seen anywhere else. The red spruce has been a puzzle to most botanists and may or may not be a good species, but seen on Prince Edward Island it is easily separated from either P. alba or P. nigra. it seems to be intermediate between the black and white species but more nearly related to the black. In the white spruce the cones are at the tips of the branches, and are from an inch to two inches long, drooping and deciduous. In the black spruce they are short and ovoid, clustered close to the stem and branches and persistent or very slightly deciduous, The cones of the red spruce are between the other two both in shape and position.

The occurrence of the white cedar in isolated patches near Tignish at the north end of Prince Edward Island and in Nova Scotia near Annapolis is somewhat remarkable, and this fact becomes more significant when it is known that its western outlier is found on Cedar Lake, an expansion of the Saskatchewan River, at least 2000 miles west of any other point at which it is known to occur. I have no facts to offer in explanation of this peculiar distribution unless it be that the cedar is an old species that is gradually dying out. lpp. 7 - 8]

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