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ABLES =a PINACE 787 
1-2 inches long, deciduous: cones oblong, 144-2 inches long, promptly 
deciduous. In the Cascade Mountains of Washington. 
7 ABIES Juss. Gen. 414. (1789.) 
Evergreen trees with linear flat scattered leaves and monoeci- 
ous flowers. Leaves sessile, often spreading so as to appear 2- 
ranked, but in reality spirally arranged, not jointed to a persistent 
base but leaving circular flat sears on the naked twigs. Stamin- 
ate aments from the axils of the previous years leaves.. Anthers 
2-celled, the cells transversely dehiscent ; the connective prolonged 
into a short knob or point. Pollen grains compound. Fertile 
aments lateral, erect. Ovules 2 to each scale. Cones erect, cylin- 
dric to ovoid, their broad obtuse scales deciduous from the persis- 
tent central axis. 
A. grandis Lindl. Penny Cyc. 130. A tall straight tree 100-300 feet 
high and 2-6 feet in diameter, with smooth brownish blotched with white 
bark and spreading branches: leaves flat, dark glossy green and channel- 
led above, glossy with two pale or white stripes beneath, 1-2 inches long: 
cones cylindric, retuse, 2-6 inches long, 1-1'¢ inch thick, with scales 
nearly twice as broad as long: the quite short obcordate or 2-lobed bracts 
with or without a short point: wing of the seed very oblique, 2-4 lines 
long. Common in moist places in forests, Brit. Columbia to California 
and Idaho. 
A. Lowiana Murr. Syn. Var. Conif. 27. A tall graceful tree 100-200 
feet high and 2-3,feet in diameter, with, when mature, dark-colored fis- 
sured bark and spreading branches: leaves 2-ranked, 1-2 inches long, 
green above, green with two white stripes beneath: cones cylindric, 2-4 
inches long, with scales nearly twice as broad as long; bracts not exserted: 
wing of the seed oblique. In the Siskiyou Mountains and southward. 
A. concolor Lind!. Journ. Hort. Soc. v, 210. A large tree 100-200 
feet high and 2-4 feet in diameter, with rough grayish bark and spreading 
branches: leaves mostly obtuse, pale green, those of younger trees and 
lower branches elongated, 2-3 inches long, 2-ranked, often slightly chan- 
nelled, those of old trees and of upper branches shorter broader and thicker, 
convex above and often falcate, covering the upper side of the branchlets: 
cones oblong-cylindric, 3-5 inches long 14-134 inch in diameter, pale 
green to dull purplish: scales 12-15 lines wide, nearly twice as wide as 
‘long: bracts truncate, not exserted: wing of the seed oblique, as long as 
wide. In the mountains at 3000-4000 feet elevation, southern Oregon to 
California. 
A. lasiocarpa Nutt. Sylva, iti, 138, A small tree 50-75 feet high and 
7-12 inches in diameter, with smooth whitish bark and drooping branches; 
leaves of the main branches 1-214 inches long, erect, acute and pungently 
pointed, those of the branchlets more or less spreading or curved upward, 
rigid and more or less pungent: cones cylindric, usually purple, 2-3 inch- 
es long, 2s-1 inch thick: scales broader than long: bracts not exserted. 
On the highest peaks of the Cascade Mountains. 
A. amabilis Forbes Pinetum Wob. 125, t. 44. A slender tree 100-150 
feet high and 1-3 feet in diameter, with smooth whitish bark and spreading 
branches: leaves rigid, acute or obtuse, 1-2 inches long, on the lower 
branches and on young trees 2-ranked, on the upper parts of mature trees 
shorter and curved upward: cones dark purple, 2-4 inches long, 2-3 inches 
