TO THE HISTORr OF CEETATN CONIFERS. 



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Var. PALLIDA, Mast. ? = A. concolor, Engelmann (partly) 

 Leaves of unequal length, flat, pale in colour. 



Fig. 7. 



I 



T 



A short-leaved form 

 raised from Califor- 

 iiian seedj and run- 

 ning Into A. grandiSj 

 var. Loicianciy and A, 

 concolor. 



California, T,ow 3 



SJ Ijohh\ with whicli 

 latter it was identified 

 by Dr. Engelmann (in 

 herb. Koav) ; Upper 

 Sacramento, IIooTcer 

 and Gray ! 



Most of the garden 



plants named concolor (^) b^act, and (b) scale of cultivated speci- 

 are probably seedling men of Ahies gmndls, var. Lowuina. 



varieties o£ the North- 

 era Californian type 

 above mentioned, and 

 not of the South Cali- 

 forniaa and Colorado 

 form, though of late 

 years the true concolor 



has been introduced Imperfect seeds of -4. ^ra;;J/X ys^r, Lowia72a, 



from New Mexico by Eoezl. 



7 



Abies concolor, Lindh 



Abies concolor, Lindley et Gordon^ in Journ. Ilort, Soc, Lond. 



(1850) vol. V, p 210; Unyel 



; Mii 

 Mis. 



Coulter^ Botany 



E 



(1868) p. 427 ; McNah^ in Proc, E. Irish Acad. ser. 2, vol. ii. 



p. 681 (1876). 



Picea concolor, Gordon, Pinettim, ed. 2, p. 210. 



Picea concolor violacca, Eoezl, Gard. Chron. vol. sii. (1879) 



p. 684, et in herh.prop. 



Santa Pe Mountains, New Mexico, Fendler 828!; Eoezl \; 

 Eio de loa Animos, South California, Engehnann, G. E. Vaseyl ; 



