The Hemlock Spruce is the most singularly beautiful of all the California coniferae. So slender is its axis at the top, that it bends over and droops like the stalk of a nodding lily.

铁杉云杉是加州所有针叶树中一种。它中轴在顶部此纤细，以至于它像点头花茎一样弯曲和下垂。

The staminate cones of all the coniferae are beautiful, growing in bright clusters, yellow, and rose, and crimson.

所有针叶树雄蕊球果都很漂亮， 生长在明亮簇中， 有黄色、玫瑰色和深红色。