26 ABIES, OR 



Abies Douglasii Standishiana, Gordon. Mr. Standish's 



Douglas Fir. 



Leaves linear, flat, and rather distantly placed, more or less 

 spirally all round the young shoots, but finally on the more 

 adult ones somewhat irregularly arranged horizontally in two 

 rows, pointing more or less obliquely outward, and from one inch 

 to one and a half long, and about three- quarters of a line broad ; 

 they are nearly all of an equal length along the shoots, and 

 blunt-pointed, except those nearest the ends of the principal 

 shoots, which are somewhat acute ; but all of them are of a dark 

 glossy green, and channelled along the mid-rib on the upper 

 surface, and with two sunken, silvery white, or glaucous bands 

 below, between the thickened mid-rib and reflected margins, 

 both of which are of a bright, glossy green, and tapering into 

 a short, stout, more or less twisted footstalk inserted in a little 

 shallow, but somewhat elevated circular socket at their base. 

 Buds few, scattered along the upper part of the shoots, and 

 placed singly at the points, bluntly oval, and covered ex- 

 ternally with broad, ciliated, or fringed scales of a dark brown 

 colour, and free from resinous matter. Branches rather nume- 

 rous and irregularly placed along the main stem, spreading, 

 and with the points somewhat elevated ; leading shoots long, 

 rather stout, and twig-like. Branchlets few, rather long, 

 straight, and more or less in two rows, placed somewhat 

 obliquely along the principal branches, those of the weaker 

 ones being a little declining, and jointed at the junction of 

 each successive growth. Bark on the younger parts smooth, 

 ashy-gray, and furnished with numerous blisters filled with 

 resinous matter, similar to that on the Douglas Fir. Cones 

 unknown. 



This very remarkable kind was first observed by Mr. Stan- 

 dish in his Nursery at Bagshot, growing amongst some seed- 

 ling Abies Douglasii raised from English saved seed, gathered 

 from a Douglas Fir growing in close proximity to some large 

 Silver Firs. 



The original plant, which, in 1861, was 10 or 12 feet 



