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at first exceeding but soon exceeded by the scales. 

 Fruit a woody pendulous cone; cone-scales long- 

 er than the bracts, persistent after the fall of the 

 seeds; seeds without resin vesicles. 



About sixteen species, inhabitants of north 

 temperate and boreal regions, most abundant in 

 western North America and eastern Asia. 



Leaves flattened, whitish on upper side, 

 bright green on under side, branchlets glabrous. 



Abies sitchensis 



Leaves quadrangular, blue-green, branchlets 

 pubescent Abies Engelmanni 



Abies sitchensis (Bongard) Lindley and Gor- 

 don, Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. 5 :2i2.i85o. [Picea 

 sitchensis (Bongard) Carriere]. Tideland Spruce. 



A large tree with a thick, strongly buttressed 

 trunk; leaves flattened, acute or acuminate, 

 silvery white and stomatiferous on the mor- 

 phologically upper side, bright green on the mor- 

 phologically lower side; branchlets glabrous; 

 cones pendant, cylindrical-oval, 6-10 centimeters 

 long, 2.5-4 centimeters thick; their scales thin, 

 lustrous, pale brown, oblong-oval, erose-denti- 

 culate above the middle. Near the coast from 



