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     TABLE 1-3. The occurrence of names referring to spruce and fir species in lists made by all those recorders who aimed to provide a list (even if incomplete) of the trees occurring 
     
     on Prince Edward Island. Most of the lists were intended to apply to the whole island (though most recorders would have known only a part of the island). 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
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     IIIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 
     
     i I 
     
     I 
     
     IIIIIIUII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 
     
    
   
   
    
     ’Spruce firs I 
     
     White or silver spruce pine’ I 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
       
     
         
     
         
     
    
   
   
    
     IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 
     
     ' ' IIIIIIIIIII IDIIIIIIIIIIIIII 
     
    

    
     fifiifiififil IIIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 
     
    

    
     kinds’ (or: ’several’ in #24) 
     
    

    
     ' IIIIIIEIII UIIIIIIIUIIIIEUIUE 
     
    

    
     IDIIIDIDI DIIIIIIIUIIIIEDID 
     
    

    
     IIIIDIUII 
     
    
   
   
    
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     ’Balsam (P/nus ba/samea) 
     
     'Var (silver fir) 
     
    
   
   
    
     Key to recorders: 1 - Holland (1764); 2 — Holland (1765: March); 3 - Holland (1765: October); 4 — Morris (1769); 5 - Patterson (1770); 6 - Patterson (1774); 7 - Curtis (1775); 8 — 
     
     [Clark] (1779); 9 - lnglis (1789); 10 — [Cambridge ](1796?); 11 - Walsh (1803); 12 — Selkirk (1803); 13 - [MacDonald] (1804); 14 - Selkirk (1805); 15 - Stewart (1806); 16 - Anon. 
     
     (1808); 17 - [Hill] (1819); 18 - Johnstone (1822); 19 — MacGregor (1828); 20 - Bouchette (1832); 21 — Martin (1837); 22 — Murray (1839); 23 - Hill (1839); 24 - Gesner (1846); 25 - 
     
     Monro (1855); 26 - Sutherland (1861 ); 27 — Bagster (1861); 28 — Anon. (1877); 29 - [Bain] (1882); 30 - Bain (1890); 31 - McSwain & Bain (1891); 32 Macoun (1894); 33 - Pollard 
     
     (1898); 34 — Johnston (1895); 35 — Burke (1902); 36 - Crosskill (1904); 37 - [Watson?] (post 1904). 
     
    
   
   
    
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     On account of the site where it occured (the Conway Sand Hills), I think that what Curtis (1775) called ‘fir’ was actually white spruce. 
     
    

    
     The name 'spruce fir' is also used in a non-list context by Gray (1793) and Seymour (1840). 
     
    

    
     Bagster (1861) appears to have listed white spruce as ’P/nus Alba, White Pine' (see Table 1-2). 
     
    

    
     Perley (1847) says that white spruce was also called ’single spruce' on Prince Edward Island (as also in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick). 
     
    

    
     Mollison (1905) says that fir was called ‘var’ on the island. See footnote 196 of the main text for other uses of the name 'var' on the island. 
     
    

    
     The part of the list of [Watson?] (post 1904) that contained fir is missing. 
     
    

    
     McSwain & Bain (1891) give Latin names only: Abies a/ba, A. nigra, A. ba/samea. These have been placed in the rows for the standard common names. 
     
    
   
   
    
     [Bain's] (1882) list contains only the broad-leaved trees.