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denticulate and mucronate at the emarginate or truncate apexj seeds 3/12- 

 4/12 inch long, dark dull brown; wings rose-colored, widest near the middle. 

 A large forest tree, sometimes 200 feet or more high, with a trunk 6 

 feet in diameter, dull grayish brown bark and short stout horizontal branches 

 in remote whorls. Native of western America, extending from southern 

 Oregon to the high mountains of northern Lower California and eastward 

 to New Mexico. A nimiber of young trees are scattered along Mausoleum 

 Avenue, and others are planted elsewhere on the Campus. 



4. Abies Momi Siebold. Momis Fir. 



Leaves appearing 2-ranked, flat, %-l/4 inches long, 1/12-1/8 inch wide, 

 grooved and bright green above, faintly keeled and bright yellowish green 

 beneath, inconspicuously emarginate; cones 2-3 inches long; scales trans- 

 versely oval or reniform, 1J4 inches wide, % inch long, lateral margins den- 

 tate ; bracts stalked, % as long as scales ; spatulate, mucronately pointed. 



The Momis Fir is a Japanese species and is often cultivated in Japanese 

 gardens and about the temples, where trees over 100 feet high and 6 feet in 

 diameter are to be found. One small tree is north of the Cactus Garden 

 and another is just back of the Angel of Grief. 



5. Abies grandis (Dougl.) Lindl. Lowland Fir. 



Leaves appearing 2-ranked, forming a flat spray, %-lJ^ inches long, 

 thin and flexible, deeply grooved and dark lustrous green above, silvery white 

 below, with 2 broad bands of stomata, emarginate; cones cylindric, slightly 

 narrowed at rounded apex, 2-3J4 inches long, 1-1}^ inches broad; scales 

 broader than long, rounded at apex, abruptly or gradually narrowed to the 

 stalk-like base; bracts about % the length of scales, obcordate, irregularly 

 serrate, mucronate; seeds J/2 inch long, light brown; wings ^-^ inch long. 



A large forest tree, sometimes attaining a height of 250 feet and a diam- 

 eter of 4 to 5 feet, clothed with long downward sweeping branches. The 

 wood is ill-scented and is known among lumbermen as Stinking Fir. Native 

 of northwestern America, ranging from Vancouver Island southward along 

 the lowlands of the coast to Mendocino County, California, and eastward 

 to the Bitterroot Mountains of western Montana and the Blue Mountains of 

 eastern Oregon. One tree is situated on the western border of the Cactus 

 Garden and a number of young trees are planted elsewhere in the Arboretum. 



6. Abies Nordmanniana (Stevens) Spach. Caucasian Fir. 

 Leaves curved upward, ^-1% inches long, 1/12 inch wide, obtuse, 

 slightly grooved and dark shiny green above, keeled, and with 2 broad sil- 

 very bands of stomata below; cones about 8 inches long, 1% inches broad; 



