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Genus P 



P. monticola Dougl. : Western White Pine. This tree is found on the 

 western slopes of the Olympics, above 500 feet elevation, usually in swamps 

 and wet places. 



Description: Cones oblong-c-ylindrieal : scales of cones unarmed: leaves 

 five in each fascicle. 



Genus Abies. 



A. nobilis Lindl. : Lovely Fir; Xoble Fir. This tree is found at consider- 

 able elevations: but rarely at elevations less than 1.500 feet. 



Description: This is a tall, silvery-barked, noble-looking tree. It differs 

 from the other firs principally in the color of its bark and in its having cones 

 with conspicuous reflexed bracts. 



A. las-iocarpa ( Hook) Xutt. : Alpine Fir: Subalpine Fir. This tree is found 

 only on the higher parts of the mountains, rarely below 5.000 feet. 



Description: A tree of 60 to 80 feet in height; bark pale. thin, smooth, 

 ash-gray in color; leaves dark-green above, with two resin-ducts about 

 equi-distant between the upper and lower face: cones oblong-eyhndrical. 

 puberulent, with bracts concealed. 



A. amabilis i Dougl.) Forbs. :' Lovely Fir; Amabihs Fir. This tree is found 

 only on the high ridges adjacent to the mountains, rarely below 1.200 feet 

 elevation. It is one of the large lumber-producing trees of the region, pro- 

 ducing more than 11.000.000 M. feet B. M. 



Description: This tree is distinguishable from A. lasiocarpa above by its 

 cones not being puberulent and by the greater length of the cones. 



A. grandis Lindl.: White Fir. This tree is occasionally met with in the 

 Soleduek Hot Spring region. 



Genus Pseudotsuga. 



P. mucronata (Raf.) Sudw. : Douglas Fir: Red Fir. This tree grows hi 

 abundance. It reaches its greatest development in the Quillayute-middle- 

 upland region. In its growth, however, it extends up the mountain slopes 

 to the altitude of 3.500 feet. In the high mountains and in the neighborhood 

 of the Pacific coast, this species is practically entirely wanting. It grows 

 to its greatest dimensions where the stand is heaviest. Throughout the 

 region it averages 240 feet in height; 77 feet clear of hmbs. with a diameter 



