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ABIES LASIOCAEPA HOOK. AND ITS ALLIES. 



by 14 or 15 mm. ; is shortly stalked with a roimdish limb, slightly 

 anricled at the junction with the stalk, and covered above on the 

 dorsal side with brownish down, whence the name given to the 

 species. It will be noted that the bract is about half the length of 

 the scale. The seeds are somewhat shorter than the scale, with a 

 hatchet-shaped, violet-coloured wing. At p. 131, illustrations are 



Leaves of A. suhalpina Hort. =? lasiocarpa Hook. Garden specimen. 



given of a leaf and leaf-section of cone-scales and bracts from 

 Douglas' specimen, for the sake of comparison with those of a fresh 

 specimen lately received from Mr. F. Moore, of the Eoyal Gardens, 

 Glasnevin, and which may be provisionally referred to lasiocarpa, in 

 spite of the shorter leaves. The figure at p. 133 shows the foliage 

 of a cultivated plant, which it is probable will prove to belong to 

 A. lasiocarpa Hook., although at present the evidence is insufficient 

 to assert so much positively. 



The references to A. amahilis made by Gordon and Parlatore, 

 and to A. grandis by Engelmann, may be passed over without 

 comment, as now known to be erroneous; but it may be added 

 that the A. lasiocarpa of gardens is a form either of grandis or of 



