. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. named A. Pattoniana. Shortly after receivingthis consignment, the committee of the OregonBotanical Association described and figured thespecies as A. Pattoniana in a circular whichthey distributed to the Association in 1852. Thatwas, I need hardly repeat, the first time that itwas figured and described, and that, too, from second batch of specimens, as indeed wegather from the said circular itself. So that reallyMr. Jeffreys Abies No. 430 is the true Tsuga Pat-toniana, and if it is identi
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. named A. Pattoniana. Shortly after receivingthis consignment, the committee of the OregonBotanical Association described and figured thespecies as A. Pattoniana in a circular whichthey distributed to the Association in 1852. Thatwas, I need hardly repeat, the first time that itwas figured and described, and that, too, from second batch of specimens, as indeed wegather from the said circular itself. So that reallyMr. Jeffreys Abies No. 430 is the true Tsuga Pat-toniana, and if it is identical in its specific characterswith the one, specimens of which he sent home fromthe Mount Baker range, lat. 49 N., then he hadhis original wish gratified ; but it is extremely doubtfulabout its being the same. In the circular already men-tioned a brief description of the plant is given, but atit might as well apply to other species it must go forvery little. But on plate iv. engravings of the coneand leaves are given, and from appearances theyagree with the characters of the A. Hookeriana,. Fig. 79.—forelle tear, (see p. 464.) Californian plant, best known in Britain as the AbiesHookeriana of A. Murray. Having myself been compelled to adopt the viewtaken by Dr. Engelmann, I beg leave to assign thereasons which led to it, and to do so it is necessarythat I should begin at the bginning. In 1S51 Mr. Jeffrey, collector for the EdinburghOregon Botanical Association, sent home in case No. 13cones and seeds of a species of Tsuga which he hadfound on the Mount Baker range in lat. 49° N., andrequested of the Association that the plant might benamed in honour of Mr. Patton, one of the mem-bers. The name Abies Pattoniana may have beensanctioned by the committee of the Association, butthe species, as such, never described by themfrom the said consignment of specimens. Seedlings,however, are said to have been raised from it, andare now well known in Britain. In 1852 Mr. Jeffrey sent
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