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and more or less declining. Cones, ovate or oblong, terminal at 

 the points of the upper branchlets, solitary, pendulous, yel- 

 lowish brown, with many linear, extended, sharp-pointed 

 bracteas, loosely imbricated ; from 2 to 3 inches long, and 

 rather more than one inch in diameter ; scales, rounded, smooth, 

 leathery, concave, quite entire, thin, and persistent, or not fall- 

 ing off after the seeds are ripe. Bracteas, linear, three-pointed, 

 the middle one much the longest, the two outer ones being very 

 short, membranaceous, but twice as long as the scales, and not 

 reflexed; seeds, very small, with the wing little more than 

 a quarter of an inch long. 



A large conical tree, with smooth bark ; when young, full of 

 turpentine ; but when old, with a rugged, greyish brown baric, 

 from \2 to 14 inches thick, and attaining in its native country, 

 under favourable circumstances, to a height of from 150 to 200 

 feet, and from 2 to 10 feet in diameter. 



It is found in immense forests, in the north-west part of 

 America, and at different elevations on the Rocky Mountains, 

 forming a small dense little bush not a yard high, at the top of 

 those mountains, but becoming larger and more stately as it 

 descends the sides, and finally it becomes those mighty giants, 

 8 or 10 feet in diameter, and from 150 to 200 feet high, in the 

 lower valleys, at the base of the same range, and along the 

 banks of the Columbia River. It is also found abundantly in 

 California, and the following variety in Mexico. 



Abies Douglasii taxifolia, Loudon. 

 Syn. Abies Drummondi, Hart. 

 „ „ taxifolia, Drummond. 

 „ „ Douglasii Mexicana, Hartweg. 

 „ „ „ brevibracteata, Antoine. 



„ Tsuga Lindleyana, Roezl. 



This very distinct variety has much longer leaves, and of a 

 deeper green than the species, with the cones much shorter, but 

 broader and less pointed ; the extended bracteas are also much 

 shorter, and not much longer than the scales. 



A handsome small tree, growing from 30 to 40 feet high. 



