. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . cattle. In one of his excursions Douglas fell accidentally into one of these pits,in which an infuriated animal was already trapped ; the animal fell upon him, andhe was found, dreadfully mangled and quite dead, July 12th, 1834, An elegantmonument with a suitable inscription has been erected to his memory by subscriptionin the parish churchyard of Xew Scone, Perthshire. Abietia F


. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . cattle. In one of his excursions Douglas fell accidentally into one of these pits,in which an infuriated animal was already trapped ; the animal fell upon him, andhe was found, dreadfully mangled and quite dead, July 12th, 1834, An elegantmonument with a suitable inscription has been erected to his memory by subscriptionin the parish churchyard of Xew Scone, Perthshire. Abietia Fortune!. A large tree with much of the habit and aspect of a Cedar ofLebanon, the trunk covered with thick rugged bark ; the l;>ranchesspreading horizontally and much ramified at the distal end. BrancMetsglabrous, orange-red, mostly distichous and opposite with occasionaladventitious shorter and weaker shoots on the upper side of the axialgrowth. Buds small, ovoid, with orange-brown perulse, the lowermostof which are prolonged into an acuminate tip. LeaA^es persistent,spirally arranged but rendered pseudo-distichous liy a half twist of theshort petiole, linear, rigid, mucronate or spine-tipped, 1—125 inch. 486 ABIES. ]on<;-, dark histrou^^ green with a narrow median keel al)Ove, palerwith two glaucous stoniatiferous hands heneath. 8taminate flowerscylindric, ohtusc, ahout 0-5 inch long, produced in umhels of eight—ten on hranchlets of the preceding year, the umhel shortly pedunculate and surroiuided at the base by smallinvolucral bracts. Cones erect,variable in size, ovoid or ovoid-cylindric, much resembling those ofPimi-^ Cemhra; scales convex, sul)-orbicular, somewhat longer thanFig- i^-^- broad, with a short cuneate claw Transverse section of leaf of AliietUi, Fortiinci. -i i i • i • i 4. ,„ M /. J •/i -1 \ iiiid rounded apical margin; bracts (From the damciicrs ihronicie.) 1 ip 1 linear, about half as long as thescales, expanded into a small sub-cpiadrate


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