ABIES AMABILIS. 



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the true Abies amalilis of Douglas. Seeds of other species as A 

 magnified, A. lasiocarpa and A. concolor var. Lowiana were sent to 

 Europe by them under the name of A. amabilis whence arose a 

 confused nomenclature and tangled synonymy scarcely paralleled even 

 amongst the Conifer*. At length the mystery which had so long 



Fig. 120. Branchlet and foliage of Abies amabilis, nat. size. 



shrouded this fine species was unveiled by the energy of the American 

 botanists, Doctors Engelniann and Parry and Professor Sargent who, 

 while investigating the forests of the Pacific coast during the summer 

 and autumn of 1880 re-discovered it on the Silver Mountain near 

 Fort Hope on the Eraser river at an altitude of 4,000 to 5,500 feet, 

 and again shortly afterwards by Professor Sargent on the same classic 



