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marginc eroso-deiiticulatae ; pcHicelli lincari-oblont:;!, parte supcriore levitcr cune- 

 ati, 4-5 mm longi, apice 3-3.5 mm lati, oniiies squamis udiiati. Semina oblongi- 

 elliptica, 6-j mm longa, 3 mm lata, alls cuneato-trapezoidcis apice truncatis vel 

 rotundatis 3.5-4.5 mm altis, 5.5-6.5 mm latis, pallide atropurpureis. 



No^r. J.\p. Kamfuto-shirabiso, Yezo-shirabiso. 



Hab. Saf^halin. Konuma (E. H. Wilson ! n. 7318, Aug. 4, 1914) ; Naikotoru, 

 West Coast (T. Mi\'ake ! Aug. 26, 1907). 



DiSTRiB. Saghalin. 



In 1914, l\Ir. E. IT. Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum kindly gave us an ex- 

 cellent sjxicimen of what he considered as Abies sachaliiicnsis, var. neinorensis Mayr, 

 which he had collected at Konnma, near Toyohara in Saghalin. The tree is said 

 to be growing mixed with Abies sachalinotsis. Among the specimens collected 

 by Mr. Tsutoni6 Miyake at Naikotoru in the west coast of Saghalin in 1907, we 

 found also those of the same fir bearing well matured cones. 



At the time of writing the "Flora of Saghalin", we availed ourselves of these 

 specimens in delineating the characters of Abies neinorensis Miyabe et Kudo under 

 the assumption, that it corresponds to the var. neinorensis of Mayr. But we. found 

 on a Careful study of these Saghalin specimens many prominent differences between 

 the typical Saghalin Fir and the plant under consideration, that we have come to 

 the conclusion that the Wilson's Fir must be elevated to the specific rank. 



Later, as we have remarked under the var. tvpica of Abies sachalineiisis, we 

 have found that the \'ar. neinorensis Mayr is a rare abnormal form of Abies sachali?i- 

 ensis a.nd should not be confounded with a new Saghalin Fir discovered by Messrs. 

 Wilson and Miyake. 



Although, according to Mr. Wilson, there are no apparent differences in the 

 habit and general appearance of this fir and those of Abies sachalineiisis, yet when 

 we come to make a closer stud\' of the cones and their parts, we could not help to 

 consider them as two distinct species. 



The elliptical, violet or bluisli black cones with included bracts, with the fewer 

 larger cone-scales which are slightly pubescent not along the outer upper margin, 

 but a little lower down toward the "middle, are quite characteristic. From Abies 

 Veitchii Lindl., to which the cone of our fir shows a slight resemblance, we can 

 easily distinguish it by the shape and size of its cone and its parts. 



