26 Illustrations of Conifers. 



ABIES SACHALINENSIS (Masters). 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XIL p. 688 (1879) with fig. 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 637 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV. p. 760 (1909). 



A TREE attaining in its native habitats a height of 100 to 130 feet with 

 a girth of 9 feet. Bark smooth and grey. Branchlets grey, with a 

 short dense pubescence in the well-marked grooves. Buds small, 

 ovoid-globose, resinous. 



Leaves on lateral shoots, with those below pectinate, longest and 

 directed outwards and forwards ; those above covering the branchlets 

 in imbricated ranks, the median leaves directed forwards and appressed 

 to the shoots, about 1 inch long, very slender ; apex slightly bifid ; 

 upper surface light-green ; lower surface with two well-defined bands 

 of stomata. 



Cones cylindrical, 3 inches long and 1J inches in diameter, 

 with large reflexed bracts which nearly conceal the scales. Seed with 

 wing f inch long. 



Abies sachalinensis was discovered in 1866 by Schmidt in Saghalien, 

 and seed was sent to England in 1879 by Maries who had found this fir 

 the previous year in Yezo. It is a native of the Kuriles, Saghalien 

 and north Japan, occurring from sea-level to 4,000 to 5,000 feet. The 

 timber is useful for general constructive purposes. In cultivation 

 this species is rare and does not succeed, the young growth being 

 cut by spring frosts. The figure of true sachalinensis is from a native 

 specimen. 



In the var. nemorensis found in the Kuriles and north-east Yezo 

 the cones are smaller, and the bracts very small and concealed. 

 The illustration of this cone is from a specimen collected by Captain 

 Clinton-Baker, RN. 



