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minutely white-punctate ; sterile aments 6-9" long, anther-crests rounded, 
dentate-fimbriate ; fertile aments 9-10'' long, dark-purple, the fleshy ovate 
obtuse squarrose scales scarcely exceeding the ovate-lanceolate bracts ; cones 
solitary, about 2' long, f wide, ovate-cylindric, obtuse, reddish-brown ; scales 
thin, 6" wide, obovate-rhombic, subtruncate or emarginate, erose ; bracts 2-3" 
long, ovate-oblong, obtusish, dentate ; seed 1" long ; wing obliquely obovnf (% 
2-3" long. — Bark thin, (li",) scaly, reddish or purplish-brown; wood \vhi((; 
and soft. Rocky Mountains, from New Mexico to Montana. East lluuiboldt 
Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 8-10,000 feet altitude : 
known as "White Pine." (1,114.) 
Abies Menziesii, Lindl. {Pinus, Dougl. DC. Prodr. IG. 2. 418.) 
Tall, of strict conical growth, with spreading branches ; branchlets light- 
colored, smooth and shining ; bud-scales ovate, obtuse, the lowest pubescent, 
carinate and awned ; leaves crowded, 6-12" long, stout and rigid, compressed- 
tetragonal, very acute, minutely white-punctate ; sterile aments 9-12" long, 
thick, anther-crests subrounded, dentatic ; fertile aments 15-20" long, with 
pale shining rounded scales, bracts minute ; cones abundant, solitary or sub- 
clustered, drooping, 2^-5' long, 12-15" wide, Ught-brown, obtuse ; scales thin, 
5-7" wide, oval or subrhombic, more or less elongated above, obtuse or sub- 
emarginate and erose-dentate ; bracts small ; seed 1-1 J" long, wing obovate- 
oblong, obtuse, 4-6" long. — Bark 3-6" thick, smooth and gray, with numer- 
ous vesicles, becoming in older trees very thick, hard and ridged ; wood 
rather coarse-grained. From Sitka to California and Colorado. In the 
Wahsatch and Uintas ; 7-9,000 feet altitude ; known as Balsam." As in 
the last the dried specimens are apt to lose their leaves, but th<' species 
may be distinguished at once from each other by the smooth or pubescent 
branchlets. (1,115.) 
Abies AMABiLis, Forbes. (?) {Pinus, DongX. DC. Prodr. IG. 2. 426.) 
Tall, pyramidal, with horizontal branches; leaves 6-12" hmg, 1" wide, 
closely crowded in 2 rows, subsecund, erect-spreading, rigid, curved or 
falcate, usually acutely mucronate, flat or somewhat channeled niid dark- 
green above, strongly carinate and glaucous beneatli ; sterile aments 3-4" 
long, oval;" fertile ones 10" long, subcylindric, the concave rounded long- 
cuspidate bract exceeding the rounded ciliolate scale, basal bracts numerous, 
ovate, obtuse, smooth; cones A-G¥ long, lA-2i' wide, solitary, erect, cylin- 
drical, obtuse, brownish-purple ; scales I'.long, 1¥ wide, horizontal and close- 
