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coast, from Arguilar Eiver on the South to the base of Mount St. Helens 

 on the North and in the intermediate distance intersecting Mount Hood 

 and Mount Vancouver. Not on the Rocky Mountains ? This grows 

 more luxuriantly and more abundantly in thin poor dry soil on a rocky 

 bottom ; near springs, or rivulets it entirely disappears. 



This if introduced would profitably clothe the bleak barren hilly parts 

 of Scotland, Ireland, and Cumberland, besides increasing the beauty of the 

 country. 



8. P. amabilis.^ Foliis solitariis planis pectinato-disticMs emarginatis 

 svhtus glaiuds, strobilis cylindricis erectis, squamis rotundatis. Sabine in 

 Trans. Hort. Soe. Vol. 



Flowers in May ? 



Leaves solitary, flat, pectinate, two-ranked, emarginate, glaucous 

 underneath, shining green above, one and an eighth of an inch long, the 

 upper rank only three-eighths of an inch, bent forward, lying close to the 

 wood, less glaucous than the others. Flower unknown. Cones cylindrical, 

 erect, mostly solitary, four to five inches long, one and a half in diameter, 

 brown with rounded scales. Seeds large, dark brown. Wing short. 

 Bractea pointed, somewhat longer than the scales. 



This is another tree of singular beauty, not quite so tall but exceeding 

 in girth the preceding one. This does not much exceed one hundred and 

 thirty feet, but is sometimes seen eight in diameter, a very graceful and 

 more compact tree than the former. The branches are very long, drooping, 

 and flat, the leaves maintaining the same character. Is well contrasted 

 with the distinct and varied foliage of those that surround it. The bark 

 of the fuU-grown timber is partly green with large whitish blotches, smooth, 

 producing little or no rosin. That of the young trees is smooth and 

 pdlished green, with minute round or oval scattered blisters, yielding a 

 limpid fluid, which possesses a less pungent taste and has a less aromatic 

 odour than Balm of Gilead Fir P. hdlsamea,z to which in some instances 

 it is related. The wood is soft, white, very light, but heavier than the last- 

 mentioned, clean-grained, and takes a goodpolish, and under the microscope 

 shows a multitude of minute angula;r reservoirs filled with the like fluid 

 contained in the blisters but somewhat more viscid and less fragrant. 



This inhabits the same range, and is equally as plentiful as the last- 

 mentioned species, and, though not quite so fine, justly merits our further 

 consideration. 



9. P. balsamea* [Linn. Sp. PL p. 1002] ; WiUd. Sp. PI. 4, p. 504 ; 

 Lamb. Gen. Pin. ed. 1. 1. 31 ;* Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2, p. 639. Abies balsami- 

 jera, Michx. f. Hist. Arlj. Am. 1, p. 145, t. 14. 



Common on the mountainous parts of the North-West Coast from 

 the 43° to the 50° N. Lat., and abundant on the western side of the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



10. P. Lambertiana. Foliis quiwis rigidis scabriusculis, vaginis bre- 

 vissimis, strobilis crassis longissimis cylindricis; squamis laxis rotundatis. 



Dougl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. 15 (1827), p. 500. 



1 Abies amabilis, Mast, in Joiirh. R. Hort. Soo. xiv. p. 189. 



2 Abies balsamea. Mast. loc. cit., p. 189. 



