FRASER’S BALSAM FIR. 
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This remarkable species, as it regards the character of 
the scales of the cone, was, it appears, discovered on the 
north-west coast, (probably in Upper California,) by the 
late Mr. Douglas in his last eventful journey. Little is 
known of it, as there are no entire cones accompanying 
the solitary specimen of this interesting plant. The scales 
of the cone are clothed with a dense and almost ferruginous 
down. The leave's are longer than in any other American 
species. 
FRASER’S BALSAM FIR. 
ABIES Fraseri, foliis emarginatis subtus argenteis , strobilis oblongo - 
ovatis , bracteolis obcordatis mucronatis exsertis rejiexis . 
Pinus Fraseri . Pursh, Flor. Bor. Amer. 2, p. 639. Lamb. Pin. (ed. 
2d,) vol. 1, tab. 42. 
Picea Fraseri . Loudon, Arboretum, 4, p. 2340, figs. 2243 and 2244. 
This species, so nearly allied to the Balsam Fir, ( A.bal - 
samea), was discovered on the high mountains of Carolina, 
by Fraser, and on the Broad Mountains in Pennsylvania, 
by Mr. Pursh, who first described it. It is a smaller tree 
than A. balsamea, or rather compact bush seldom exceed- 
ing 10 feet in height, the leaves are shorter and more erect, 
and the cones about one-half the size. It was introduced 
into England by Mr. Fraser in 1811, and the original tree 
in the Hammersmith Nursery in 1837, was 15 feet high, 
and had for 2 or 3 years produced cones, but no male cat- 
kins. 
It is omitted by Michaux, who probably considered it, 
