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SILVER FIR 



Abies pectinate, D.C. Silver Fir (Fig. 121). Tall Fir, 

 tapering, with branches in pseudo-whorls, the leaves on 

 the leader radiating in spirals, becoming looser downwards, 



Fig. 121. Silver Fir, Abies pectinata, p. 314 (Wi) 



and the twigs markedly pseudo-distichous, and bearing 

 horizontally displayed shoots of densely spiral leaves. 

 Leaves 2 4 cm. long (12 28 x 3 mm.), persisting 5 7 

 or even 8 11 years, solitary, those on the upper and lower 

 sides of shoot twisted at the base into two or three pseudo- 

 distichous ranks in the horizontal plane ; flat, linear, obtuse 



