CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 213 



WHITE FIR. BALSAM FIR. 



Northern slopes of the Siskiyou mountains, Oregon, and perhaps farther north in the Cascade mountains, 

 south along the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas to the San Bernardino and San Jaciuto mountains, California; 

 along the high mountains of northern Arizona to the Mogollon mountains, New Mexico, northward to the Pike's 

 Peak region of Colorado, and in the Wahsatch mountains of Utah. 



A large tree, 30 to 40 meters in height, with a trunk 1.20 to 1.50 meter in diameter; uioist slopes and caiions 

 between 3,000 and 9,000 feet elevation, reaching its greatest development in the California sierras, varying greatly 

 in the color and length of leaves, habit, etc., and perhaps merely a southern form of the too nearly allied A. grandis, 

 from which it cannot be always readily distinguished. 



Wood very light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, compact; bands of small summer cells narrow, resinous, not 

 conspicuous; medullary rays, numerous, obscure; color, very light brown or nearly white, the sap-wood somewhat 

 darker; specific gravity, 0.3038 ; ash, 0.85 ; occasionally manufactured into lumber and used for packing-cases, 

 butter-tubs, and other domestic purposes. 



397. Abies bracteata, Nuttall, 



Sylva, iii, 137, t. 118; 2 ed. ii, t. 118. Hartwi-g in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, iii, 225. Lindloy & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, 

 v,209. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 19G; 2 od. 265. London Gard. Chronicle, 1853, 435; 1854, 459; 1859, 928. Bot. Mag. t. 4740. 

 Lemaire in 111. Hort. i, 14, t. 5. Fl. des Scrres, ix, 109 & t. Naudiu in Rev. Hort. 1854, 31. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 

 262. Murray in Edinburgh New Phil. Jour, new ser. x, 1, t. 1, 2 (Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, vi, 211, t. 1, 2). Henkel & 

 Hochstetter, Nadelhiilz. 1G7. Hoopes, Evergreens, 199. Bertram! in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xviii, 379. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 

 35. Engclmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii, 601 ; London Gard. Chronicle, 1879, 684 ; Bot. California, ii, 118. Veitch, Manual 

 Conif. 89, f. 14, 15. 



Pinus venusta, Douglas in Companion Bot. Mag. ii, l.V>. 



Pinus bracteata, D. Don in Trans. Linmean Soc. xvii, 443. Lambert, Pinus, 1 ed. iii, 169, t. 91. Antoine, Conif. 77, t. 

 30. Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechey, 394. Hooker, Icon. t. 379. Eudlicber,Syn. Conif. 89. Walpers, Ann. v,798. 

 Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 419. MeNab in Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 2 ser. ii, 674, t. 46, f. 1. 



Picea bracteata, London, Arboretum, iv. 2348, f. 2256. Gordon, Pinetum, 145; 2 ed. 202. Lawson, Pinetnm Brit, ii, 171, 

 t. 25, 26, f. 1-7. Nelson, Pinaceffi, 37. Fowler in London Gard. Chronicle, 1872, 286. 



A. venusta, Koch, Dendrologie, ii",210. 



Santa Lucia mountains, California, from the northern boundary of San Luis Obispo county about 40 miles 

 northward. 



A tree 46 to 61 meters in height, with a trunk 0.90 to 1.20 meter in diameter; moist, cold soil, occupying 

 4 or 5 caiions between 3,000 and 6,000 feet elevation, generally west of the summit of the range (O. R. Vasey). 



Wood heavy, not hard, coarse-grained, compact; bands of small summer cells broad, resinous, conspicuous; 

 medullary rays numerous, obscure ; color, light brown tinged with yellow, the sap-wood not seen ; specific gravity, 

 0.6783; ash, 2.04; probably more valuable than the wood of the other North American Abies. 



398 Abies amabilis, Forbes, 



Pinetum Woburn. 125, t. 44. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 210. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 219 ; 2 ed. 296. Cooper 

 in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 262. Lyall iii Jour. Hort. Soc. London, vii, 143. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 159. Nelson, 

 Pinacese, 36. Hoopes, Evergreens, 209 (excl. syn. lasiocarpa). Fowler in London Gard. Chronicle, 1872, 285. Koch, Dendrologie, 

 ii 3 , 211 (excl. syn. latiocarpa'). Muvoiiu in Geological Rep. Canada, 1875-76, 211. Engelmann in London Gard. Chronicle, 1880, 

 720, f. 136-141 ; Coulter's Bot. Gazette, vii, 4. Veitch, Manual Conif. 86. 



Pinus amabilis, Douglas in Companion Bot. Mag. ii, 93. Autoine, Conif. 63, t. 25, f. 2. Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechey, 

 394. Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 104. Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 426, in part. 



Pinus grandis, Lambert, Finns, 1 ed. iii, t. 26 [not Douglas]. 



Picea amabilis, Loudon, Arboretum, iv, 2342, f. 2247, 2248. Knight, Syn. Conif. 39. Gordon, Pmetntn, 154 ; 2 ed. 213 (excl. 

 syn.). Newberry in Pacific R. R. Rep. vi,51, 90, f. 18. 



A. grandis, Murray in Proc. Hort. Soc. London, iii, 308, f. 18-21 [not Lindley]. 

 A. grandis, var. demiflora, Engelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad. iv,599. 



Valley of the Fraser river, British Columbia (Engelmann & Sargent), and probably farther north, south along 

 the Cascade mountains of Washington territory and Oregon. 



A tree 30 to 45 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 1.20 meter in diameter, forming extensive forests on the 

 mountains of British Columbia, between 3,500 and 5,000 feet, and upon the mountains south of the Columbia river 

 between 3,000 and 4,000 feet elevation, here reaching its reatest development; its northern range not yet determined. 



Wood light, hard, not strong, close-grained, compact ; bands of small summer cells broad, resinous, dark 

 colored, conspicuous; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, light brown, the sap-wood nearly white; specific 

 gravity, 0.4228 ; ash, 0.23. 



