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()8. Abies 



Var. Apollinis, Beiss. (A. Apollims, Link). Branchlets j'^ellowish: leaves 

 more crowded above, only a few leaves below spreading downward and 

 forward, thicker and broader, acute or sometimes obtusish. — Introduced in 

 1850 to Germany. 



21. A. cUicica, Carr. Cilician F. Fig. 68 and Plate XXVII. 

 100 feet tall; bark ashy-gray, smooth, 

 scaly in old trees; winter-buds small, 

 with few keeled acute scales, free at 

 the tips, not resinous; branchlets gray, 

 with scattered short hairs: leaves 

 spreading upward and forward, on 

 weak shoots outward and upward and 

 leaving a V-shaped depression in the 

 middle, somewhat pectinate below, 

 linear, slender, rounded or acute and 

 slightly bifid at apex, about 1 inch long, 

 shining bright green above, with narrow 

 white bands beneath: cones cylindric, 

 7-9 inches long, reddish-brown; scales 

 1^-2 inches broad, with entire margin; 

 bracts hidden. Asia Minor, 

 Syria. — Introduced in 1853 to 

 Europe by Kotschy. Hardy 

 as far north as southern 

 Ontario and New England. A handsome fir similar to A. Nordmanniana, 

 but with slenderer branches. 



22. A. Nordmanniana, Spach. Nordmann F. Tree to 150 feet tall; bark 

 grayish-brown, slightly fissured in old trees; winter-buds ovoid, acute, with 

 slightly keeled obtusish scales, not resinous; branclilets gray with scattered 

 short hairs: leaves directed forward and densely covering the branclilets. 



lustrous dark green above, with whitish bands beneath: cones cylindric, 

 5-6 inches long, reddish-brown; scales about IJ/2 inches wide; bracts exserted 

 and reflexed. Caucasus, Asia Minor, Greece. — Hardy as far north as southern 

 Ontario and New England. Introduced about 1840 to Europe. A hand- 

 some and desirable species forming a narrow-pyramidal densely branched 

 tree with dark green foliage. 



Var. aurea, Beiss. With yellow foliage. 



Var. tortifolia, Rehd. Leaves of the middle ranks above falcate and 

 twisted, partly exposing the white under side. 



23. A. alba, Mill. {A. pectinafa, DC. A. Picea, Lindl., not Mill.). Silver 

 F. Tree to 150 feet tall; bark grayish, smooth, scaly in old trees; winter- 



