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form, it being said to be kidney-shaped, and five lines broad, while J eífrey's 
18 In no respect kidney-shaped, but oblong-oval. Figs. 15 and 16 respec- 
tively represent the seeds of Jeffrey's and Bongard's species, 
Fig. 11. Fig. 12. Fig. 13. 
Abies Albertiana. Abies Mertensiana. Abies Albertiana, 
Mr. Gordon in his “ Pinetum " treats the two trees as the same, 
and mixes up Bongard’s descriptions with particulars which seem to 
be taken from the young plants of Jeffrey's tree. Indeed, he does 
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Fig. 14. ig. 15, Fig. 16, 
Abies Mertensiana. Abies Albertiana, Abies Mertensiana. 
quite fairly either, for while Bongard says, “ Rami ramulique delapsis 
foliis, valde tuberculosi,” that is, “ branches and branchlets excessively 
tuberculated after the leaves have fallen,” Mr, Gordon says the branch- 
lets are “rather downy when young, but much tuberculated when old 
from the falling leaves.” Bongard says nothing about them when old. 
In his supplement, however, Mr, Gordon gives this corrected statement ; 
“ The bark is much divided by small longitudinal fissures on the stems 
of old trees, but somewhat smooth on the younger опев,”——а character 
quite inconsistent with Bongard's tuberculations. ' 
In his description, Bongard omits to give any information as to the 
size of his tree, but in the Catalogue of coniferous trees published 
in the fifth volume of the Horticultural Society’s Journal, it is said, on 
the authority of F. Rauch, to be a branching “shrub like Abies Cana- 
densis." This most probably has reference to the Sitcha tree; Gordon 
in his “Pinetum " calls it 100 to 150 feet high ; which, no doubt, refers 
to the Oregon tree. | TU 
Before we saw the specimens of Bongard's A, Mertensiana, sent by 
Professor Regel, we had great doubts of its being the same as Jeffrey's 
species, not only from the discrepancies in the description, but from the 
difference between the character of the climate of Sitcha and of Oregon, 
as well аз of this country, where the Oregon tree is thriving well, Unless 
