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broad depressed stomatal band on either side, contracted at base 

 into a very short petiole, acutish, obtuse or slightly notched at 

 summit, spreading in 2 ranks or more or less erect by a twist in 

 the very short petiole; staminate catkins cylindric, straw-yellow 

 or red, ^^ inch long or less; cones brown, oblong, rounded at 

 summit and base, 2 to 53^ inches long, i to i^ inches in diam- 

 eter; scales broad and rounded; bracts about ^ as long as the 



Figure 24. Abies Lowiana. ; Young trees near Verdi, Nevada 

 scales, rounded and finely toothed, often with a notch at the top 

 and usually terminating in a short slender point; seed 5 lines 

 long, its wing 6 or 7 lines long, 5 or 6 lines wide, widening to- 

 ward the truncate apex." 



Not having had an opportunit\' to stnd\ tlie eastern tree, 

 true Abies concolor^ the original of which came from the moun- 

 tains of New Mexico, I shall use the name Abies Lowiana for 

 our western one. On geographical gmnnds alone one should 



