538 



ABIES SACHALINENSIS. 



Abies sachalinensis, Masters in Gard. Chron XII. (1879), p. 588 with tig. ; 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 517, with same fig. ; and Journ. R. Hort. Soc. 

 XIV. 195. Kent in Veitch's Manual, ed. I. 106, witli fig. Mayr, Abiet. des Jap. 

 Reiches, 42, Tafel III. fig. 6. 



A. Veitchii var sachalinensis, Schmidt in Mem Acad St. Petersb. XII. ser. 7 

 176, t. 4, figs 1317 (1868). Beissner, Nadelholzk. 461, with fig. 



Eng. Saghalien Fir. Germ Sachalin "VVeistanne. Jap. Todo-matsn. 



Abies sachalinensis was discovered by the German botanical traveller, 

 Friedrich Schmidt, on the island of Saghalien in I860, and 

 subsequently described by him in the " Memoires " of the Imperial 



Fig. 138. Fertile branchlet with cones of Aides sachdlinensis. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



Academy of Science of St. Petersburg as a variety of Abie* 

 Veitclmi. Nothing further was known of it till it was 

 re-discovered by Maries in 1878 in Yeso, the northern island of 

 Japan, and by whom it was introduced in the following year. In 

 northern Yeso it is believed to form pure forests of considerable 

 extent ; on the central mountains it occurs mixed with Pieea 

 ajanensis and P. Glehnii ; and in the south which is much better 

 known botanically, it is more or less scattered, but abundant and 

 often mixed with deciduous trees. /!. sachalinensis is thence a 

 northern tree, enduring annually winters with which the most severe 



