12 ABIES, OR 



narrow, straight, spreading, quite entire, and terminated by an 

 acute, spiny, bristle-formed point ; they are more or less arranged 

 on the upper side of the branchlets, bright green above, glau- 

 cous below, and from three-fourths to an inch long, and three- 

 quarters of a line broad. Branches in horizontal spreading 

 whorls, with the branchlets, when young, cylindrical, straight, 

 smooth, and of a yellowish-brown colour ; but when old, rough 

 and tuberculated by the convex cushions of the fallen leaves. 

 Cones, solitary , cylindrical, two and a quarter inches long and 

 three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and as broad at one end 

 as the other. Scales numerous, loosely imbricated, smooth, 

 membranous, oblong-elliptic, toothed at the apex, and irregu- 

 larly crenated on the margins. Bracteas very small, ovate, 

 and terminating in a spiny mucro. Seeds very small, pale 

 cinnamon-coloured, one line long, with ovate wings two lines 

 long ; sometimes acutely notched on the margins. 



A tree resembling Abies Menziesii, and from 40 to GO feet 

 high, with a straight stem covered with an ashy-gray bark, 

 and the branches in ; horizontal whorls, sometimes inclining 

 downwards at the points. 



It is found plentifully in the vicinity of Hakodadi and Mats- 

 mai, in the island of Jesso ; and at Youkahama, near Kanagawa ; 

 and to the south of Yeddo, on the island of Nippon in Japan, 

 where the natives call it Jezo-Matsu. 



No. 6. Abies Menziesii, Loudon. Menzies Spruce Fir. 



Syn. Pinus Menziesii, Douglas. 



Sitchensis, Bongard. 



Picea Menziesii, Carriere. 



Sitchensis, Carriere. 



Abies Sitchensis, Lindley. 



Leaves solitary, thickly scattered in every direction round 

 the branches, twisted at the base, narrow, rigid, linear, sharp- 

 pointed, incurved, silvery below, and vivid green above, three- 







