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FRASER’S BALSAM FIR. 
as I did, a mere variety of A. balsamea. It is, however, a 
perfectly distinct species. 
Leaves short, secund and crowded round the branch, 
linear, subfalcate, flat, emarginate, rarely entire, the margin 
and rib prominent and obtuse, beneath silvery and some- 
times bisulcate, about half an inch long. Masculine aments 
terminal, crowded, oblong, subtended at base by numerous 
obovate fimbriate membranaceous caducous scales. An- 
thers 2-celled, opening longitudinally, with a small subreni- 
form, entire, callous crest. Cones aggregated by 2 or 3 
together, sessile, oblong, obtuse, cinereous, puberulous, 
about 2 inches long ; the scales cuneate-rounded, below 
subcordate, and unguiculate, the margin entire and inflected. 
The dorsal appendage or bracte, oblong-obcordate, carti- 
laginous, subfoliaceous, with a thin erose margin, twice the 
length of the scales, reflected, wflth an abrupt subulate 
short point. Seed black, shining, with an oblong striated 
wing, with an interior straight margin. 
Plate CXIX. 
A branch of the natural size with cones, a. The leaf. b. The scale. 
c. The scale and bracte. 
It is remarkable to find that the Pines, by mountain 
elevations, extend their geographic range even to the 
tropics, and we have thus, in the Firms occidentalism a pine 
indigenous to the island of St. Domingo ; it, however, 
inhabits a range of mountains on which snow occasionally 
falls, notwithstanding the warm latitude in which it is 
found. 
In the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia, we have a specimen with staminiferous 
flowers, also from the island of Cuba, collected by M. La 
Sagra, which appears to be a variety of Pinus Montezuma 
