204 ON THE SYNONYMY OF VARIOUS CONIFERS, 
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elevation of about 5000 feet above the sea: from that part to the 
margin of perpetual snow itis found. Along the lower part of its range 
it is a noble-looking tree, tisitig to the height of 150 feet, thirteen 
and 1. If feet in circumference. As it ascends the mountains it gets 
gradually smaller, till at last it dwindles into a shrub of not more than 
four feet high.” He proposed that if it was undescribed it should be 
called Abies Pattonii, after Mr. George Patton, of the Cairnies, one of 
the Committee; and a zealous cultivator of Conifers. The Committee of 
In our comparative description of thesa two trees; whilst we admitted 
their close affinity, we Pointed out various differences in the cone, and 
not Tecognised at the tithe we wrote, viž., the distribution of the stomata 
" е leaf. We have how examined fresh leaves of plants raised from 
the seeds collected by Jeffrey on the Mount Baker range, 49° north, 
and of | plants raised from the seeds of A. Hookeriana from Scots 
Mountain, 41° north i 
Tn the безе place, the leaf of A, Pattoniana is on the average a half 
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the rows, and with little if any diff ет wpe 
wes he andas can erence between the upper and under 
de QAM. G4 MOTHER ON ВЫ plato, wa Nae Medie Иш 
Mb, Thé DANA Ue fag: Кы buste qaom AE 
9 pátticulátly towards thë point. The манит in А, Hookeriana 
