Postelsia 187 
This tree is reported from Vancouver Island 
by G. M. Dawson (*). It apparently does not 
occur in the vicinity of Port Renfrew. 
Abies amabilis (Loudon) Forbes. Pinetum 
Woburn: 125. pl. 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. 
