. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 5. PINE FAMILY, CONIFERS. 63 2 on the base of each scale, reflexed, the scale shorter than or exceeding the thin or papery, mucronate or aristate bract. Cones erect, subcylindric or ovoid, their scales deciduous from the persistent axis, orbicular or broader, obtuse. [Ancient name of the firs.] About 25 species, natives of the north temperate zone, chiefl
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 5. PINE FAMILY, CONIFERS. 63 2 on the base of each scale, reflexed, the scale shorter than or exceeding the thin or papery, mucronate or aristate bract. Cones erect, subcylindric or ovoid, their scales deciduous from the persistent axis, orbicular or broader, obtuse. [Ancient name of the firs.] About 25 species, natives of the north temperate zone, chiefly in boreal and mountainous regions. Besides the following, 8 others occur in the western parts of North America and 1 in Mexico. Type species: Pinus Picea L., Abies Picea (L.) Lindley, of Europe. Bracts surrulate, mucronate, shorter than the scales or but little longer. 1. A. balsamea. Bracts aristate, reflexed, much longer than the scales. 2. A. Fraseri. i. Abies balsamea (L.) Mill Pinus balsamea L. Sp. PI. 1002. 1753 Balsam Fir. Fig. 148. Mill. 1002. Gard. Diet. Ed. 8, No. 3-. Abies balsamea 1768. A slender forest tree attaining a maximum height of about go° and a trunk diameter of 3°, usually much smaller and on mountain tops and in high arctic regions reduced to a low shrub. Bark smooth, warty with resin " blis- ; Leaves fragrant in drying, less than 1" wide, 6"-io" long, obtuse, dark green above, paler beneath or the youngest conspicuously whitened on the lower surface ; cones cylindric, 2'-4' long, 9"-i5" thick, upright, arranged in rows on the upper side of the branches, violet or purplish when young; bracts obovate, ser- rulate, mucronate, shorter than the broad rounded scales. Newfoundland and Labrador to Hudson Bay and Alberta, south to Massachusetts, Pennsyl- vania, along the Alleghanies to Virginia and to Iowa and Minnesota. Ascends to 5000 ft. in the Adirondacks. Wood soft and weak, light brown; weight per cubic foot 24 lb
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