174 



BK. MAXWELL T. MASTERS's COXTKIBUTIONS 



well marked, the resin-canals subepidermal and surrounded by 

 strengtliening cells continuous with the lower hypodermal cells ; 

 the central fibro-vascular bundle is double (fig. 3). 



Abies grandis, Lindl, 



) 



Abies grandis, Lindlcy in Penny Cyclopcedia^ \. p. 30; Engeh 

 inn in Bot. Cahforn, ii. p. 118 ; Sargent, Forest Trees of North 



f. 33-36 ; 



Master 

 Manua. 



McNah 



Murray 



p. 135, f. 28. 



Abies Gordon! ana, Carriere^ JBertrand. 



Murr 



Picea lasiocarpa, BaJfc 

 Chron, vol. v. 1876, p. 78. 



HooTc.^ Jldi 



Mend 



W 



and Oregon south of the Umpqua Eiver, Cascade Mountains below 



Fig- 4. 



Bract:, scale, and seed of 

 Abies grandis» 



Bracts of Abies grandis to show 



their variabiHty. 



4000 feet elevation, through the Blue Mountains of Oregon to 

 the eastern slope of the Cour d'Alene Mountains, the Bitter-root 

 Mountains, Idaho, and the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains 

 of Northern Montana," Sargent, I c. Columbia Eiver and Cascade 

 Mountains, Lyalll San Juan Island, Lyall\ 



In cultivation A. grandis varies in the length and colour of the 

 leaves, some of the forma having received distinct names, sucK as 

 Gordoniana &c., but these are hardly worth keeping up. 



As seen in gardens grandis forms an elegant tree of elongftted 

 pyramidal form, tbe branches slender, arranged in irregular ver- 

 ticils, and diminishing in length gradually towards the top of the 



