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WHITE SPRUCE FIR. 
Abies alba. Dr. Richardson, in his Appendix to Franklin’s 
Tour to the North, mentions this tree as the most northerly 
that came under his observation ; and states that, on the 
Coppermine River, in latitude 67^°, within 20 miles of the 
Arctic Sea, it attains the height of 20 feet or more. In its 
native forests it rarely exceeds 50 feet in height. There is, 
however, in Down in Ireland, (according to Loudon,) a tree 
60 years planted, which measures 55 feet in height, and 
another in Galway, at Cool, is 56 feet high, with a diameter 
of 2$ feet. 
DOUGLAS’S SPRUCE FIR. 
ABIES Douglasi!, (Sabine MSS ), foliis linearibus obtusis subtus albidis 
tinea media elevata .marginibus reflexis , strobitis erectis ovatis , squamis 
paucis latissimis , bracteotis obovato-lanceolatis exsertis trijidis reflexis , 
lacinia media subulata lateratibus membranaceis erosis longiori . 
Pinus (Abies) Douglasii . Hooker, Flor. Bor. Am. 2, p. 162, tab. 183. 
Lamb. Pin. vol. 3, t. 90. 
Pinus taxifotia . Pursh. Flor. Am. 2, p. 640. Lamb. Pin. (Ed. 2,) 2, 
tab. 47. 
This plant, in the dense forests of the north-west coast 
of America, constitutes one of the largest trees known in 
either hemisphere. It forms a pyramid of deep verdure, 
