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Show Lewis aml Clal'kc"s E.l']JC(lilion The second js a much more common species, and con11ti tutes at least one half of the timber in this neighboul'l10ou. It seems to resemble the spruoe, •·ising from one hundred and sixty to one hunclt•ell and eighty feet, and is f1·om four to six in diameter, straight, round, and regularly tapering. The bark is thin, of a dark colour, much divided in smalllont.;itudinal interstices: the bark of the boughs and young trees is somewhat smooth, but not equal to 'he balsam fir: the wood is white, very soft, but <iifficult to rive: the h·uuk is a simple, branching, aml diffuse stem, not so 1u·oliferous as the pines and firs usually at·e. It 1mts forth bnds from the sides of the small boughs, as well as ft·om thcit• cxh·emincs: the stem terminates like the ce<hu·, in a slender }lOiute<l top: the leaves are petiolate, tbe footstalks slsort, acerose, •·ather more than haifa line in width, and very unequal in lcngflJ; the greatest length seldom exceeds one inch, "bile other leaves intermixed on every part of the bough, do not cxcccll a quartet· of an inch. 'I'hc leaf has a small longitudinal channel on tho upper disk, whicb is of a dct'l) ami glossy green, while the mHlct· disk i of a whitish gl'ecn only: it yields but little rosin. \Vhat is •·cmarl'"aiJle, the cane is not longer than the end of a man's th uml>, it is sort, l!cxil>lc, ol' an ovate fot·m, and rwoducctl at the cuds of the small twigs. The thil·d species resembles in alltwints, the Ca1Hl.~~tn balsam fir. It grows fi•OJn t'~O and a half lO f'OUl' feel in ~iamet. er, and rises to the heig1•t of cit-;hly ot· an hunut·ed l'cct. 'l..,hc stem is simple, b1·anching, ancl pt·oli!'erous: it. lcaYCS are sessile, accrous, one eighth of an inch in length, and one sixtceuth in width, thickly scattered on the twigs, and allhere to the three under 'iides only; gibbous, a JiUiederlining, obtusely J>OintCtl, soft, and flexible. The uppcl' tUsk is longitullinalJy mal'l<:cd with a slight channel, of a deep glossygreen; the under or a pale green and not glossy. '!'his •L·co affords in consid<waiJle quantities, a line tleep aromatic bal· &am, resembling the balsam o(' (;anada in ta5tC aud appeal'· ance. 'l'bc small pistils filled, J•i!ic like a blister on tho Up the Jf1issmwi. 157 trunk and the branches. The bark that envelops these pistils, js soft and easily punctured: the general appea1• .. ancc of the bark is dark and smooth; but not so remarkable for that quality as the white pine of our country. 'fhe wood is white and soft. 'fhe fourth species in size resembles the sccoml. The stem is simple, IH\c'lnching, ascending, and prolifc•·ous; the bark is of a reddish dark brown, and thiokcr than that or the third Sllecics, divided by small lon~ituclinal interstices, uot so much magnified as in the second species. 'rhe relative position of the leaves l'cscmble those of the "balsam fir, excepting that they are only two-thirds the widLll, and little more than half the length, ami that the upper disk is not so gt·ccn and ~lossy. The wood yields no lml8am, and but little t•osin. 'rhe wood is white and tough aUhough rathe1' porous. 'l'hc fifth species in size resembles the steond, ami bas a trunk simple, lwanching, and pt•o)ifcr·ous, 'l'hc bark is or a thin dad<: IJrown, divided longituuinalJy by interstices, ~lml scaling otfin thin rolling Ilakcs. It yields but little balsam: two-tlai1·tls of the diameter of tho tt·uuk in tl1e centre, pl·cscnts a red•lish whiLe; the remain1let· is white, pot• ous, an1l tough: the twigs are much lo~ger and more slender than in cifhet• nfOac other species; the Jean'. arc accrose, one .. twentieth of an inch in w idtlt, and one inch iu length; scxtile, insct'tetl on all ~ides of the bough, stt·aight, and obliquely pointing tow ~u·ds the extremities. The upper disk has a smalllont;it miinal chauut'l, awl is or a deep g•·ceo, and not so glossy as the balsam 1i1·. The under disk is of .L I)alc green. 'y c II a vc ~ccn a species of this fir on low marsJay grounds, resemblin~·in all 1wints the foregoing, cxeept that it branches mo•·c dJ.ifusivcly. 'l'his tree is gcncr·aiJy thirty feet in height, and two in diameter. The difi'usion of its branches may result ft·om its open !:iituation. as it eeldom grows in the neighbourhood of uuotl.tcr tree. The cone is two and a half |