CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 213 



"WHITE FIR. BALSAM FIR. 



Nortliern 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 Jacinto mouu'nins, California; 

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

 Peak I'cgiou 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 ; moist slopes and canons 

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

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

 from v.'hich 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, 0.3633 ; 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. Harfcweg in Jour. Hort. Soc. Loudon, iii, 225. Liadley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. Londoii, 

 V, 209. Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 193; 2 ed. 235. London Gard. Chronicle, 1853, 435; 1854, 459; 1859, 928. Bot. Mag. t. 4740.-- 

 Lemaire in 111. Hort. i, 14, t. 5. Fl. des Serres, ix, 109 & t. Naudin in Rev. Hort. 1854, 31. Cooper in Sinithsoniau Eep. 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, Nadelholz. 167. Hoopes, Evergreens, 199. Bertrand in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xviii, 379. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 

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

 Conif. 89, f. 14, 15. 



Pinus vennsta, Douglas in Companion Bot. Mag. ii, 152. 



Pinus bracteata, D. Don in Trans. Linnaean 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. Endlicher,Syn. Conif. 89. Walpers, Ann. v, 798. 

 Parlatore in De CaudoUe, Prodr. xvi', 419. McNab in Proc. Royal Irish Acad. 2 ser. ii, 674, t. 46, f. 1. 



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

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



A. venmta, Koch, Deudrologie, ii, 210. 



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

 northward. 



A tree 40 to Gl 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 G,000 feet elevation, generally west of the summit of the range {G. B. Vasey). 



Wood heavy, not hard, coarsegraiued, com jjact; bands of small summer cells broad, resiaous, 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. Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 219 ; 2 ed. 296. Cooper 

 in Smithsonian Eep. 1858,262. Lyall in Jour. Hort. Soc. Loudon, vii, 143. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 159. Nelson, 

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

 ii, 211 (excl. syn. lasiocarpa). Macoun in Geological Rep. Canada, 1875-'76,21I. ^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. Antoine, Conif. 63, t. 25, f. 2. Hooker & Amott, Bot. Beechey, 

 394. Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 104. Parlatore in De CandoUe, Prodr. xvi', 426, in part. 



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



Pi^;ea amabilis, Loudon, Arboretum, iv, 2342, f. 2247, 2248. Knight, Syn. Conif. 39. Gordon, Pinetum, 154 ; 2ed.2I3(exoL 

 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. densiflora, Eugelmann 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 j^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. 



