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have one species in cnltivation and another known only by Herbarium 

 specimens, viz., Fendler, jSTo. 829 ; Wright, No. 1885 ; and Abies, sp. 

 Douglasii ? Rocky ITonntains, JSTuttall. I am indebted to Prof. Perce- 

 val Wright for the opportunity of examining the specimens of Fendler 

 and Wright in the Herbarium of Trinity College. The leaves of the 

 fine old plant of Douglasii, in the Eoyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 

 have neither hypoderm nor stellate idioblasts. 



