98 FAMILIAR TREES 
discovered in 1792, on the shores of Nootka Sound, 
by Archibald Menzies, another Perthshire man, who 
accompanied Vancouver in his voyage of circum- 
navigation. From specimens brought home by 
Menzies, without cones, Lambert in 1803 described 
the tree as Pi’nus taxifolia, a name which Poiret, 
recognising its affinities, altered in the following 
year to A’bies taxifolia. David Don, in the 1828 
edition of Lambert’s work, while retaining the tree 
under the genus Pinus, renamed it in honour of its 
introducer P. Douglasii ; and, retaining this specific 
name, it was referred once more to the genus Abves 
by Dr. Lindley in 1833, to Pice‘a by Link in 1841, to 
his new genus Jsu’ga by Carriére in 1855, and to 
Pseudotsu’ga, a genus constituted for it, by the 
same botanist in 1867. Finally Mr. Kent has pro- 
posed to set aside the name Pseudotsuga as a 
barbarous mixture of Greek and Japanese in favour 
of Abve’tia. 
Writing of the tree in its original home, Professor 
Newberry says :— 
“ As it usually grows in its favourite habitat, about the mouth 
of the Willamette, it forms forests of which the density can hardly 
be appreciated without being seen. The trees stand relatively as 
near each other, and the trunks are as tall and slender, as the canes 
in a canebrake. In this case, the foliage is confined to the tuft 
at the top of the tree, the trunk forming a cylindrical column as 
straight as an arrow, and almost without branches for two hundred 
feet. The amount of timber on an acre of this forest very much 
exceeds that ona similar area in the tropics, or in any part of the 
world I have visited.” 
This description is borne out by timber of this 
species now largely shipped from Puget Sound, and 
