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Title: 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
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kent, Adolphus Henry Veitch, James Herbert, 1868-1907 James Veitch & Sons
Subjects: Conifers Conifers
Publisher: Chelsea : J. Veitch
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 219 (1875). Pinus ainaliiUs, Parlatore, D. C. Piodr. XVI. 426 (in part). Pseudotsuga magnifica, MeXab in Proceed. R. Irish Acad. II. ser. 2, 700, fig. 30. Amer. Red Fir. Germ. Priichtige Weisstanne. var.—shastensis. A smaller tree with more slender foliage and usually ellipsoid (notcylindric) shorter cones the bi-acts of which, 0-5—1 inch long, protrudefrom betAveen the scales, reflexed and suddenly contracted to anacuminate point ; the large purple cones thus decked out Avithtasselled fringes are most beautiful objects. A. magnifica A-ar. shastensis, Leinmon, X. W. Amer. Cone-bearers, 62 (1895).Sargent, Silva X. Amer. XII. 138, t. 620. A. shastensis, Lemmon in Gardenand Forest, X. 184. A. nobilis robusta, Masters in Gard. Chron. XXIV. (1885);p. 652, fig. 147 (not Carriere). Abies magnifica inhabits chietly the mountains of Oregon andCalifornia. On the Cascade mountains it is common between 5,000and 7,000 feet elevation and also on the western slopes of the
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Aides ina<jniji-a at Murtlil)- Castle, Perth^hin. AHIES MAGNIFICA. 519 Sierra Nevada between 6,000 and 9,000 feet, in some places formingpure forests of great extent, in others mixed with Tsuga 3fertcnsianaat its higher, and Pinus ijondcrosa and Abies concolor at its lowerlimit. It also forms a large and exclusive forest on the high plateauof lava formerly erupted from Mount Shasta in north Californiawhence it spreads southwards along the western slopes of theSierra Xevada to Kerr County. On the .southern slopes of Shasta the trees becouic a dark, gloomy assemblage of massive black trunks, covered on the north side from the base to the lowest branches with a bright yellow lichen; the lower branches are draped here and there with long, sweeping festoons of black film) lichen, giving a funereal aspect to the whole scene, scarcely relieved by the twitter of the red squirrel, the long Availing note of the woodpecker or the occasional cry of the bald eagle.* The forest here described is

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