10 SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUM. 



above and glaucous below ; more or less obliquely placed all 

 round the shoots, and seldom more than three lines long. 

 Branches and branchlets very slender, little divided, more 

 or less drooping at the ends, and rather thickly covered with 

 the small, obliquely-placed leaves. 



A very distinct and singular-looking variety, raised in the 

 Nursery of Messrs. Waterer and Godfrey, at Knaphill, in 

 Surrey. 



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 Abies Douglasii, Lindley^ the Douglas Fir. 

 Syn. Abies obliquata, Rafinesque. 

 „ „ obliqua, Bongard. 



The trunk of this Fir, for two-thirds of its diameter in the 

 centre, presents a reddish colour, and yields but little resin or 

 turpentine, but excellent timber ; while the remainder or outer 

 part is white, porous, tough, and not very durable. 



It is called " Sas-coo-pas,^' and " Paps," by the Indians along 

 the Columbia River, and on the N. W. coast of America, and 

 which signifies, in their dialects. Big tree, and Great fir. Pro- 

 fessor Rafinesque mentions a variety of the Douglas fir, under 

 the name of Abies mucronata, var. palustris, as having been 

 found by Lewis and Clarke, during their exploratory expedition 

 in the Oregon country, growing in low or marshy grounds, only 

 30 feet high, but with spreading branches and a stem ^ feet 

 in diameter. 



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 to 

 one and a half inch 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 princi- 

 pal shoots, which are somewhat acute ; but all of them are of 



