LXXVI. CONI'FERE!: ABIES. 1025 
longer than others The 
scales are about 2 in, 
long, standing open, 
with their points more 
or less bent down- 
wards; the rhomboidal 
surface is much longer 
than ic is broad, inter- 
sected by many wrinkles 
lengthwise, of a dull 
greenish and yellowish 
brown colour. Seed 
winged, 1 in. long, and 
from 8 to 12 lines broad 
at the top, where it is 
broadest. It is small 
in proportion to the 
cone. The wing has 
almost the appearance 
of the upper wings of 
many small moths, being 
brownish, with dark 
stripes running length- 
wise. (Schlecht.) A 
large tree. Mexico, at 
Omitlan, near Hacienda {j \ 
de Guerrero, and other 
places. Height 100 ft. 
Introd. to H. S. Gard. 
in 1840 by Hartweg. 
A great deal of resin 
exudes from the whole 
cone, as in Pinus Strobus, 
to which this species is 
nearly allied; but it differs 
in the points of the scales, 
which in this species are 
bent downwards, whereas 
in P. Strodbus they are 1921. 1. Ayacahuite, 
bluntly rounded, obtuse, 
and stand upright. Genus II. 
lalallala. 
ABIES D. Don. Tue Spruce Fir. Lin. Syst. Mone'cia Monadélphia. 
ification. D.Don in Lamb. Pin., vol. iii. Nicos ‘ 
aco Pinus of Lin. and others, in part; Picea Link in Abhand. Kénig. Akad. Wissens. 
Berlin, p. 179. for 1827, (the ancients called the silver fir A‘bies, and the spruce fir Picea ; but, by 
some inadvertence, Linnzus reversed these names: Professor Link has restored them in the 
essay quoted, but we have not thought it advisable to depart from the customary nomenclature, 
by following him) ; A‘bies of Tourn., Mill., and others, in part; Picea of the ancients; Sapin 
épicea, Fr.; Fichtenbaum, Ger.; Abete, Ital. ; Abieto, Span. 3 
Derivation. From abeo, to rise ; alluding to the aspiring habit of growth of the tree: or, according 
to some, from apios, a pear tree ; in allusion to the form of the fruit. 
Gen. Char. The-same as Pinus: but with the cones pendent, and less de- 
cidedly grouped ; the strobiles cylindrically conical ; the carpels not thick- 
ened at the tip; and the /eaves solitary, partially scattered in insertion, and 
more or less 2-ranked in direction. Carpels and bracteas adhering to the 
axis of the strobiles. (D. Don.) 
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