30 ABIES, OR 



what smooth on the younger ones. It is called " Lucatzin " by 

 the Indians in California. The timber is soft, white, and diffi- 

 cult to rive or split. 



No. 19. Abies Pattoniana, Jefrey, Patton's Calif ornian Fir. 

 Syn. Abies gracilis, Hort. 

 „ „ Williamsonii, Newberry. 

 „ „ Hookeriana, Murray. 

 Picea Californica, Garrihre. 

 „ Tsuga Hookeriana, Carrih-e. 



Leaves solitary, alternate, thickly scattered on all sides of the 

 branches, petiolate, trigone, stiff, curved, acuminate, and rather 

 blunt-pointed, three-quarters of an inch long, and nearly one- 

 tenth of an inch broad, triangular, a little declining, and spring- 

 ing from a small triangular pedestal of soft, spongy, elastic bark 

 at the junction with the shoots ; bright green above and glau- 

 cescent beneath; buds irregularly scattered along the twigs, 

 terminal ones very scaly, pointed, and destitute of resin, the 

 bud scales continuing to encircle the twigs for years afterwards. 

 Branches and young shoots densely covered with a brown woolly 

 substance, and rough, scaly bark, slender, and rather drooping. 

 Cones, oblong-cylindrical, tapering slightly to both ends, smooth 

 externally, from two inches to two and a half long and one inch 

 broad, pendulous, crowded, and produced at the points of the 

 top branches, and when ripe of a light brown colour. Scales 

 rounded, thickest in the centre and thin on the edges, entire, or 

 somewhat wavy on the margins, very numerous, nearly all of a 

 size,five-tenths of an inch broad, and rather loosely placed. Seeds 

 very small, with rather broad wings, a quarter of an inch long. 

 Stem straight, with numerous slender drooping branches, not 

 very prolific at the extremities. Bark, rough, scaling off in 

 irregular flakes, and of a reddish brown colour, particularly on 

 the young shoots. It yields but little resin, but the timber is 

 hard, fine-grained, and of a reddish colour. 



The' Abies Pattoniana occupies the most elevated parts of the 

 Sierra Nevada, and seldom descends lower down than 100 yards 



