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A MANUAL OF THE CONIFERS. 



long, and half an inch in diameter ; pendent and dark purple before 

 they are mature, and when ripe pale fawn coloured." 



Habitat. — According to the same authority, California, the Cascade 

 Mountains, Scott's Mountain, and the Sierra Nevada, at altitudes 

 of from 4,500 to 6,000 feet. 



Introduced in 1854, by Mr. William Murray, and named in 

 compliment to the late Sir William Jackson Hooker. 



Abies Pattoniana, as described by Dr. Engelmann,* is " A tall 

 strictly pyramidal tree, 100 to 150 feet high, and 2 to rarely 4 feet 

 through ; in high altitudes only a shrub of graceful habit, with 

 slender pubescent branchlets and light green foliage; bark thick. 



Fig. 30.— Foliage of Abies Pattoniana. Natural size. w,-_ ■>, n 



*)g. <U.— Oone of Abies Pattoniana. 



much cracked and apt to scale off, reddish grey; leaves 6 to 12 

 lines long (half an inch to 1 inch) angular, acutish, attenuated at 

 base,, often curved; cones cylindrical oblong,. 2 to 3 inches long." 

 * Gardeners' Chronicle, vol. xii., p. 756, 



