ON THE SYNONYMY OF VARIOUS CONIFERS, 319 
There are three or four rows of stomata on all the four slides of the leaf, but 
they are few in number and irregularly placed, and are scattered over the 
leaf (figs. 30 and 31) Тһе leaf of the young plant (fig. 33) is very 
different in appearance from that of the old tree—so much so that one 
would scarcely suppose them to belong to the same species : instead of being 
SE a. T us 
Fig. 80. —U: sideof old Fig, 31.— Lower side 
leaf of Abies st old m of Abies 
es magnifica 
Fig. 29. pf get ed shad old magnified to show sto- magni- 
leaves. of Abies magnifica grow- wit ц del to how sto- 
ing side by side. 
thick and square, the leaf of the young plant is thin, and only 
ing to the tetragonal form. It is slender and sharp-pointed, dark glaucous 
green, and the stomata are disposed pretty much as in the older leaves, but 
there are fewer of them. The leaves are disposed on the young plant 
somewhat as in 4. grandis, the lower leaves being spread out distichally, 
and the leaves along the upper side of the twig crowded longitudinally, 
pointing to the end of the branch. Fig. 82 represents a twig showing 
the disposition of the young leaves. 
Hip re — Young leaf 
d upper or under 
side nsf ere alike) 
to show 
11 £ lant of Abi maenifiea. 
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Fig, 32. —Twig е young } 
This has been supposed by some to be A. amabilis ; but it is scarcely 
necessary to say that although there is some similarity in some of its 
characters it has nothing whatever to do with it. 
The specific characters of this species may be summed up as— 
ABIES, з, 9. PICEA MAGNIFICA, —Foliis tetragonis (primo tenuibus рын fortibus) 
faleatis haud poet аф — basi tortis, ubique ccrta 
strobilis maximis, squamis expansis e leviter ие, on 
grandibus se, айы T longo lamella maru expansa et dente m terminatis ; 
seminibus alis valde expansis. > E 
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