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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 Engelmannt 
Abies sitchensis (Bongard) Lindley and Gor- 
don, Journ. Elort. Soc. bond.5 212-1656. [Picea 
sitchensis (Bongard) Carriere]. Tideland Spruce. 
A large tree with a thick, strongly buttressed 
trumk: 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-ro centimeters 
longe-)225 -4 centimeters thick; them seales thin, 
lustrous, pale brown, oblong-oval, erose-denti- 
culate above the middle. Near the coast from 
