4, TSUGA Carr. 1855. 
Tsuga is apparently the Japanese name for Abies 
Tsuga Sieb. @ Zucc. [nu-tsuge ts given as the name 
Jor Llex crenata and Tsuga-zakura for Phyllodoce 
taxifolla. Kaempfer [| Amoen. 5: 781. ] mentions two 
Species of Tsuge: **Ojo, vulgo Tsuge, Buxus arbor- 
escens, folio ovato” . . and‘*Tsuge altera, Chamebu- 
xus mtnor,” &c, 
Trees with straight, excurrent trunks and, slender, hori- 
zontal branches. Leaves alternate, flat, apparently 2-- 
ranked, bluish-white beneath. Flowers naked, mone- 
cious: the staminate in globose clusters : the pistillate ter- 
minal. Ovules 2 in the axils of each scale. Fruit a pen- 
dulous, ovoid cone. Seed winged. 
BCOES 1.22 CHUMLOME: 
I, T, canadensis (L.) Carr. 
Abies minor pectinatis folits, Virginiana, conis 
parvis, subrotundts, . .aD. Bantster e Vir- 
gina transmissa est . . . Pluk. Alm. 2 1696. 
deed OWigte UIEPA Casio IG 
Abtes foltts solitarits &c.. Gron. Fl. Virg. rot. 
Pinus canadensis £, Sp. Pl. 1421. 1763. 
Lsuga canadensts Carr. Conif. 189. 1855. Sarg. 
Silva 12: 63. t.603. Man. 48. 
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