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Habitat. — Nortliern slopes of the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, 

 and perhaps farther north in the Cascade Mountains ; south along the 

 western slope of the Sierra Nevadas to the San Bernardino and San 

 Jacinto Mountains, California ; along the high mountains of Northern 

 Arizona to the MogoUon Mountains, New Mexico ; northward to 

 the Pike's Peak region of Colorado^ and in the Wahsatch Mountains 

 of Utah. 



A large tree, 100-130 feet in height, with a trunk 4-5 feet in 

 diameter ; moist slopes and caiions between 3,000 and 9,000 feet 

 elevation, reaching its greatest development in the Californian Sierras ; 

 varying greatly in the colour and length of leaves, habit, &c., and 

 perhaps merely a southern form of the too nearly allied A. grandis, 

 from which it cannot be always readily distinguished. 



Wood very light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, compact ; bands 

 of small summer cells narrow, resinous, not conspicuous ; medullary 

 rays numerous, obscure ; colour very light brown or nearly white, the 

 sap wood somewhat darker ; specific gravity, 0'3638 ; ash, 0*85 ; occa- 

 sionally manufactured into lumber and used for packing-cases, butter- 

 tubs, and other domestic purposes. 



This species, planted in Danish gardens about 1864, now has a 

 height of about 40 feet and a girth of 3^ feet. It has produced cones. 



A. Eichlerii, Lauche, is probably the same as A. Veitchii. 



A. firma, Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. ii. 15, t. 107. A. Momi, Sieb. 

 Verhand. van het Batav. Genotsch. xii. 12 ; Koch, Dendr. 227. 

 A. bifida, Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. ii. 18, t. 109 ; Carr. Tr. Gen. des 

 Conif. 214. A. liomoleins, Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. ii. 17, t. 108. 

 A. Webbiana, Lindl. and Gord. (not Endl.) Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 211. 

 A. major, Honso Sufu, 78. Picea firma, Gord. Pinet. 147. P. 

 Webbiana, Gord. Pinet. 160 (partly 1858). Finns Webbiana, Ant. 

 Conif. 70, t. 27. P. bifida. Ant. Conif. 79, t. 31, f. 2. P. homolepis, 

 Ant. Conif. 78, t. 31, f. 1. P. Harryana, MacISTab. in Proc. P. Irish 

 Acad. 689, t. 47, f. 16. Abies TschonosUana, Hort. Petrop. 



Habitat. — Japan, but, according to H. Mayr, not further north 

 than 40°. 



Introduced in 1861 by Mr. J. G. Yeitch. 

 Seems to be hardy in Denmark. 



A. Fraseri, Lindl. in Penny Cyclop, i. n. 5. Finns Fraseri, 

 Pursh, Fl. Bor. Amer. ii. 639. Ficea Fraseri, Loud. Arb. iv. 2340, 

 f. 2243-44. Abies balsamea [3 Fraseri, Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. xi. 

 422. 



Habitat. — The highest summits of the Alleghany Mountains in 

 North Carolina and Tennessee. Introduced in 1811 by Mr. Fraser, 

 Lea Bridge, near London, after whom it is named. 



A tree 60-80 feet in height, with a trunk sometimes 2 feet in 

 diameter ; moist slopes between 5,000 and 6,500 feet elevation, 

 forming considerable forests. 



