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This tree is reported from Vancouver Island 

 by G. M. Dawson (*). It apparently does not 

 occur in the vicinity of Port Renfrew. 



Abies amahilis (Loudon) Forbes. Pinetum 

 Woburn. 125. pi. 44.1839. White Fir. 



A tall tree with a straight, slender trunk and 

 pale bark; leaves dark glossy green above, 

 silvery white beneath, flat, grooved on the upper 

 side, rounded, notched or sometimes acute at 

 the apex, short petiolate and twisted at the base, 

 somewhat two-ranked except on leading and 

 fertile branches, 1-5-3 centimeters long; cones 

 oblong, dark greenish purple, puberulous, 8-15 

 centimeters long, about 5 centimeters wide; 

 cone-scales broad cuneate, exceeding the oblong- 

 ovate acuminate bracts; seeds about 12 milli- 

 meters long, with wide oblique wings. Southern 

 British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, 

 along the Cascade mountains and westward to 

 the ocean. Largely subalpine. 



This is the common balsam fir in south- 

 western Vancouver Island where it grows abund- 

 antly from sea level up to the summits of the 



* Dawson, G. M. Can. Nat. N. S. 9:326. 



