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* Abies nobilis Lindley. Noble Fir. 



Range. — Washington (coast mountains in southwestern part of State; Olympic 

 Mountains on Solduc River) ; and southward to northern California (Siskiyou 

 Mountains); from Mount Baker southward (in the Cascade Mountains) to 

 Oregon (Browder Ridge on headwaters of McKenzie River in Lane County). 

 Reported from Vancouver Island (vicinity of Vernon Lake. — Fide Leo M. Martin, 

 of the Crown Willamette Paper Company, per Geo. H. Cecil in letter, Aug. 10, 

 1918. 



NAMES IN USE 



Red Fir (Oreg.). Feather-cone Red Fir (Calif, lit.). 



"Larch" (Oreg. lumbermen). Noble or Bracted Red Fir (Calif, lit.). 



Noble Fir (Oreg.). Tuck Tuck (Pacific Indians). 

 Bigtree. 



VARIETIES DISTINGUISHED IN CULTIVATION 



Abies nobilis glaucifolia Sudworth. Abies nobilis robustifolia Sudworth. 



* Abies magnifica A. Murray. California Red Fir. 



Range. — California (Mount Shasta and throughout the western slopes of 

 Sierra Nevada) and northward in the Cascade Mountains of southern Oregon. 



NAMES IN USE 



Red Fir (Calif.). California Red Fir (Calif, lit. and 



California Red-bark Fir (Calif.). trade). 



Magnificent Fir (Calif, lit.). Golden Fir (Calif, lit.). 



* Abies magnifica shastensis Lemraon. Shasta Red Fir. 



Range. — Southern Oregon (Cascade Mountains) and California (Mount 

 Shasta, Mount Eddy, Trinity Mountain, Scott Mountains; southward in the 

 Sierras it occurs at several points in Fresno, Tulare, and Kern Counties) . Range 

 as yet insufficiently understood. 



Note on nomenclature. — Formerly designated as Abies shastensis Lemmon. 



NAMES IN USE 



Shasta Red Fir (Calif, lit.). Shasta Fir (Calif, lit.). 



VARIETIES DISTINGUISHED IN CULTIVATION 



Abies magnifica cyanea Sudworth. 



Abies magnifica xanthocarpa Lemmon. Yellowcone Fir. 



Abies vennsta (Douglas) K. Koch. Bristlecone Fir. 



Range. — Southern California (Santa Lucia Mountains, Monterey County). 



NAMES IN USE 



Fringe Spruce. Santa Lucia Fir (Eng. lit.). 



Bristlecone Fir (Calif.). 



SEQUOIA Endlicher 



*Sequoia washingtoniana n (Winslow) Sudworth. Bigtree. 



Range. — California (from latitude 39° to a little south of latitude 36°, that is, 

 from Middle Fork of American River and along the western slope of Sierra 

 Nevada to the headwaters of Deer Creek. Altogether there are some twenty- 



11 It is held by some botanists that since the long-used name for this tree, S. gigantea, is now excluded 

 (for reasons shown below), S. wellingtonia is the next tenable name and that the really older name, S. wash- 

 ingtoniana, should be neglected because thought not to be technically established. The first name applied 

 to this tree is Wellingtonia gigantea Lindley (London Qard. Chron., 820, 823, 1853). The second name is 



