12 ABIES, OE 



narrow, straight, spreading, quite entire, and terminated by an 

 acute, spiny, bristle-formed point ; they are more or lesa arranged 

 on the upper side of the branchlets, bright green above, glau- 

 cous below, and from three-fourths to an inch long, and three- 

 quarters of a line broad. Branches in horizontal spreading 

 whorls, with the branchlets, when young, cylindrical, straight, 

 smooth, and of a yellowish-brown colour ; but when old, rough 

 and tuberculated by the convex cushions of the fallen leaves. 

 Cones, solitary, cylindrical, two and a quarter inches long and 

 three-quarters of an inch in diameter, and as broad at one end 

 as the other. Scales numerous, loosely imbricated, smooth, 

 membranous, oblong-elliptic, toothed at the apex, and irregu- 

 larly crenated on the liiargins. Bracteas very small, ovate, 

 and terminating in a spiny mucro. Seeds very smaU, pale 

 cinnamon-coloured, one line long, with ovate wings two lines 

 long ; sometimes acutely notched on the margins. 



A tree resembling Abies Menziesii, and from 40 to 60 feet 

 high, with a straight stem covered with an ashy-gray bark, 

 and the branches in [horizontal whorls, sometimes inclining 

 downwards at the points. 



It is found plentifully in the vicinity of Hakodadi and Mats- 

 mai, in the island of Jesso ; and at Youkahama, near Kanagawa ; 

 and to the south of Yeddo, on the island of Nippon in Japan, 

 where the natives call it Jezo-Matsu. 



No. 6. Abies Menziesii, Loudon. Menzies Spruce Fir. 



Syn. Pinus Menziesii, Douglas. 

 „ „ Sitchensis, Bonga/rd. 

 „ Picea Menziesii, Carrilre. 

 „ „ Sitchensis, Carrihre. 

 „ Abies Sitchensis, Lindley. 



Leaves solitary, thickly scattered in every direction round 

 the branches, twisted at the base, narrow, rigid, linear, sharp- 

 pointed, incurved, silvery below, and vivid green above, three- 



