Identifier: journalofbotanyb27trim (find matches)
Title: Journal of botany, British and foreign
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Trimen, Henry, 1843-1896 Britten, James, 1846-1924 Ramsbottom, John, 1885- Seemann, Berthold, 1825-1871 Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938
Subjects: Plants Plants -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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?) Abies lasiocarpa Hook.—Leaves, cone-scaLS, bract and seeds: from Glasnevin. 134 ABIES LASIOCAEPA HOOK. AND ITS ALLIES. Abies BIFOLIA. Next in chronological order comes Abies bifolia, originallydescribed by the late Andrew Murray, in the * Proceedings of theRoyal Horticultural Society, vol. iii. (1864), p. 318 (p. 29 of thereprint), and figured by him in the Gardeners Chronicle,April 10 (1875), p. 464, figs. 96, 97. This was originally describedby Murray from specimens collected by Dr. Lyall on theGalton range of the Rocky Mountains, in 49° N. lat., near thesources of the Columbia River, about 7000 ft. above the level ofthe sea. The native Colville Indian name is Marielp. Murraysdescription runs thus :—
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Branch and cone of A. bifulia Murray (type). Abies, s. g. Picea, bifolia: folhs novis planis et apice obtuserotundatis pedunculatis et basi semitortis; foliis vetustis apiceacatis embtetragonis hand pedunculatis et hand basi tortis; amentiamascuhs brevibus rufo-purpureis, strobilis purpureis, squamis, ABIES LASIOCABPA HOOK. AND ITS ALLIES. 135 bracteis parvis sessilibus dente medio-longo; seminibus alls mediolatissimis antice sub rotundatis. The type-specimens are in theKew Herbarium. In these specimens the leaves are much shorterthan in Douglas example of lasiocarpa, while those on the olderand fertile branches are sharply pointed and arranged all round thebranch instead of in one horizontal plane. The buds are muchlarger and the cone-scales more oblong or squarish in outline, lessauricled and the bract considerably less than half the length ofthe scale. Of this species specimens were collected by Eoezl in NewMexico, and it is from these specimens that the figure given by Murrayand h

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