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A MANUAL OF THE CONlMB*. 



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on the older branchlets, but on the younger ones they are also 

 produced plentifully along the upper side. The cones are pendulous, 



from 2 to 3 inches 

 long ; the scales 

 thin and leathery, 

 persistent after 

 the fall of the 

 seed, and with 

 narrow, protrud- 

 ing, tricuspidate 

 bracts, the middle 

 process much 

 longer than the 

 two lateral ones. 



Habitat. —West- 

 ern North America, 

 as far north as 

 Sitka to the Real 

 del Monte in 

 Mexico, but not 

 continuous through 

 the territory. "It 

 forms the chief 

 ingredient of the 

 vast forests that 

 extend from British 

 Columbia to the 

 Kg. 35.— AUes DougiatH. Shasta Mountains 



in California. It is abundant along the coast range from San 

 Francisco to the 35th parallel." It occurs on the Rocky Mountains, 

 with some interruptions, from at least latitude 52° N. to as far 

 south as New Mexico, about latitude 32° N. 



Discovered by Archibald Menzies in 1795, and introduced by 

 David Douglas in 1827. 



Abies Douglasii pendula is a striking departure from the 

 normal habit, in which the branches droop downwards quite close 

 to the trunk. 



