abies PINACEJ2 787 



1-2 inches long, deciduous: cone* oblong, l>£-2 inches long, promptly 

 deciduous. In the Cascade Mountains of Washington. 



7 ABIES Juss. Gen. 414. (1789.) 



Evergreen trees with linear flat scattered leaves and monoeci- 

 ous flowers. Leaves sessile, often spreading so as to appear 2- 

 ranked, but in reality spirally arranged, not jointed to a persistent 

 base but leaving circular flat scars on the naked twigs. Stamin- 

 ate aments from the axils of the previous years leaves. Anthers 

 2-celled, the cells transversely dehiscent ; the connective prolonged 

 into a short knob or point. Pollen grains compound. Fertile 

 aments lateral, erect. Ovules 2 to each scale. C-»nes erect, cylin- 

 dric to ovoid, their broad obtuse scales deciduous from the persis- 

 tent central axis. 



A. grandis Lindl. Penny Cyc. 130. A tall straight tree 10'-3:»U l'e^t 

 high and 2-6 feet in diameter, with smooth brownish blotched with white 

 bark and spreading branches: leaves flat, dark glossy green and channel- 

 led above, glossy with two pale or white stripes beneath, 1-2 inches long: 

 cones cylindric, retnse, 2-0 inches long, 1—1 3^ inch thick, with scales 

 nearly twice as broad as long: the quite short obcordate or 2-lobed bracts 

 with or without a short point: wing of the seed very oblique, 2 4 line's 

 long. Common in moist places in forests, Brit. Columbia to California 

 and Idaho. 



> A, Lowiana Murr. Syn. Var. Cotiif. 27. A tall graceful tree I0j-2oo 

 teet high and 2-3 feet in diameter, with, when mature, dark-colored fis- 

 sured bark and spreading branches: leaves 2-ranked, 1-2 inches long, 

 green above, green with two white stripes beneath: cones oyliudric. 2-4 

 inches long, with scales nearly twice as broad as long; bracts no; exserted: 

 wing of the seed oblique. In the Siskiyou Mountains and southward. 



A. concolor Lino!. Jonrn. Hort. < oc. v. 2L->. A Inrge tree it. 0-30* » 

 feet high and 2-4 feet in diameter, with roigh grayish hark and spreading 

 branches: leaves mostly obtuse, pale green, those of .younger t ees and 

 lower branches elongated, 2-3 inches long. 2-ranked. often slightly chan- 

 nelled, those of old trees and of upper branches shorter hroader and thicker, 

 convex above and often falcate, covering the upper side of the branchMs: 

 cones oblong cylindric, 3 5 inches long 1 %-!% rich in diameter, pale 

 green to dull purplish: scales 12-15 lines wide, nearly twice as wide -as 

 long: bracts truncate, not exserted: wing of the seed oblique, as long as 

 wide. In the mountains at 3000-4000 feet elevation, southern Oregon to 

 California. 



A. lasiocarpa Sutt. Sviva, id, 13>:. A small tree 50-75 reet high .ml 

 7-12 inches in diameter, with smooth whitish bark and drooping branches; 

 leaves of the main branches 1-2)^ inches long, erect, acute and pungently 

 pointed, those of the branchlets more or less spreading or curved upward, 

 rigid and more or less pungent: cones cylindric, usually purple, 2-3 inch- 

 es long, %~\ inch thick: scales broader than long: bracts not exserted. 

 On the highest peaks of the Cascade Mountains. 



A. amabilis Forbes Pinetum Woh. I2">, t. 44. A slender tree I 0-150 

 feet high and 1-3 feet in diameter, with smooth whitish hark and spreading 

 branches: leaves rigid, acute or obtuse, 1-2 inches long, on the lower 

 branches and on young trees 2 ranked, on the upper parts of mature trees 

 shorter and curved upward: cones dark purple, 2-4 inches long, 2-3 inches 



