ABIES LASIOCABPA HOOK. AND ITS ALLIES. 



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bracteis parvis sessilibus dente medio-longo ; seminibus alls medio 

 latissimis antice sub rotundatis." The type-specimens are in the 

 Kew Herbarium. In these specimens the leaves are much shorter 

 than in Douglas' example of lasiocarpa, while those on the older 

 and fertile branches are sharply pointed and arranged all round the 

 branch instead of in one horizontal plane. The buds are much 

 larger and the cone-scales more oblong or squarish in outline, less 

 auricled and the bract considerably less than half the length of 

 the scale. Of this species specimens were collected by Eoezl in New 

 Mexico, and it is from these specimens that the figure given by Murray 

 and here repeated, was made (See p. 134). These New Mexican 

 specimens (if they be really such), do not differ from those from the 

 more northern stations. I have also lately received a fresh cone, 

 with leaves, from Mount Hood, Oregon, where it was collected 

 by Mr. W. Stewart. This also corresponds almost exactly with 

 the type figured here. 



Oone-scale and bract of A. bifolia. 



Abies subalpina. 



Abies subalpina. of Engelmann was not described until 1876 (in 

 the tenth volume of the ' American Naturalist'). It may be well to 

 give a copy of Engelmann's original description : — 



" Abies subalpina, Eng. n. sp. — Tall and slim, 80 to 100 feet 

 high, often 50 feet without branches ; bark smooth, white, and 

 covered with vesicles to near the base ; leaves 6 to 12 lines long, 

 less than a line broad, not twisted near the base, bisulcate and 

 somewhat glaucous on the lower (outer) side, short-pointed, obtuse 

 or slightly emarginate, those on the lower branches 2-ranked and 

 spreading, those on the upper scattered, crowded, and more or less 

 appressed, shorter on fertile than on sterile branchlets ; cones 2^ 

 to 3 inches long, 1^ to 2 inches thick, solitary, erect, ovate or 

 oblong, obtuse, greenish ; scales 6 to 10 lines long and about as 

 broad, horizontal and close-pressed, broad-cuneate, unguiculate; 

 the rounded upper margin somewhat reflexed and resinous, pubes- 

 cent ; bracts short, white with a dark base, erose-dentate all round, 



