214 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



399. Abies nobilis, Liudley, 



Penn. Cycl. i, 30. Forbes, Pinetum Woburn. 115, t. 40. Link in Linnsea, xv,532. Spach, Hist. Veg. xi,419. Nuttall, Sylva, iii, 136, t. 

 117 ; 2 ed. ii, 193, 1. 117. Lindley & Gordon ill Jour. Hort. Soo. London, v, 209. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 198 ; 2 ed. 268. Jour. Bot. & 

 Kew Gard. Misc. is, 85. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 262. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 168. Hoopes, Evergteens, 

 203. Koch, Dendrologie, ii-, 209. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 34. Engelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii, 601, in part; London 

 Gard. Chronicle, 1879, 885 ; Bot. California, ii, 119, in part; Coulter's Bot. Gazette, vii, 4. Veitch, Manual Conif. 101. 



PinUS nobilis, Douglas in Companion Bot. Mag. ii, 147. Lambert, Piuus, 1 ed. iii, 167, t. 74. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 

 162. Antoine, Conif. 77, t. 29, f. 2. Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Beechcy, 394. Endlicher, Syu. Couif. 90. 



Picea nobilis, London, Arboretum, iv, 2342, f. 2249, 2250. Knight, Syn. Conif. 39. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. 

 London, v, 209. Gordon, Pinetum, 149; Suppl. 48; 2 ed. 207 Newberry in Pacific R. R. Rep. vi, 49, 90, f. 17. 

 Lawson, Pinetum, Brit, ii, 181, t. 28, 29, f.1-18. Nelson, Pinacese, 39. 



Pseudotsuga nobilis, Bertrand in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xviii, 86. McNab in Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 2 ser. ii, 699, t. 49, f. 

 29, 29". 



A. maf/nifica, Eugelmann iii Bot. California, ii, 119, in part. 



RED FIR. 



Oregon, Cascade mountains from the Columbia river south to the valley of the upper Eogue river, and along the 

 summits of the Coast Range from the Columbia to the Nestucca river (Collier). 



A large tree, 61 to 92 meters in height, with a trunk 2.40 to 3 meters in diameter, forming, with A. amabilis, 

 extensive forests along the slopes of the Cascade Range, between 3,000 and 4,000 feet elevation ; less multiplied in 

 the coast ranges, here reaching its greatest individual development. 



Wood light, hard, strong, rather close grained, compact; bands of small summer cells broad, resinous, dark 

 colored, conspicuous; medullary rays thin, hardly distinguishable; color, light brown streaked with red. the sap- 

 wood a little darker; specific gravity, 0.45G1 ; ash, 0.34. 



400. Abies magnifica, Murray, 



Pr6"c. Hort. Soc. London, iii, 318, f. 42-50; London Gard. Chronicle, 1875, 134. Regel, Gartenflora, xiii, 119. Henkel & Hoclistetter, 

 Nadelholz. 419. Koch, Dendrologie, ii 2 , 213. Engelmaun in Trans. St. Louis Acad. iii, 601; London Gard. Chronicle, 1879, 885, f. 

 116 ; Bot. California, ii, 119 ; Coulter's Bot. Gazette, vii, 4. Veitch, Manual Conif. 99. 



A. campylocarpa, Murray in Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh, vi, 370. 



A. nobilis robusta, Hort. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 2 ed. 269. 



Picea magnifica, Gordon, Pinetum, 2 ed. 219. Murray in London Gard. Chronicle, 1875, 105. 



Pinus amabilis, Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 426, in part. McNab in Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 2 ser. ii, 677, t. 46, 

 f.3, 3? ' 



A. amabilis, Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 34 [not Forbes]. 



Pseudotsuga magnifica, McNab in Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 2 ser. ii, 700, t. 49, f. 30, 30. 



A. nobilis, Engelmann, Bot. California, ii, 119, in part. 



BED FIR. 



California, mount Shasta, south along the western slope of the Sierra Nevadas to Kern county. 



A large tree, 61 to 76 meters in height, with a trunk 2.40 to 3 meters in diameter, forming about the base of 

 mount Shasta extensive forests between 4,900 and 8,000 feet elevation; farther south less common and reaching 

 an extreme elevation of 10,000 feet. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, rather close-grained, compact, satiny, durable in contact with the soil, liable to 

 twist and warp in seasoning; bands of small summer cells broad, resinous, dark colored, conspicuous; medullary 

 rays numerous, thin; color, light red, the sap-wood somewhat darker; specific gravity, 0.4701 ; ash, 0.30; largely 

 used for fuel and occasionally manufactured into coarse lumber. 



