TO THE niSTORY OP CEETAIN" CONIFERS. 173 



(jrandis^ tliough a little exaggerated, is in the main correct, espe- 

 cially as to the long abruptly acuminate bract, the figure of 

 which has given rise to the confusion Avith the Californiau 

 A, magnificat'* — Gr. Exgelmaxk, 



To these remarks of Dr. Engelmann we may add a i^"^ notes 

 concerning the amahilis generally cultivated in this country : 



Habit as of ^. Nordmanniana, 



Buds small, ovoid, conic ; scales shining. 



Young lateral shoots horizontal, flattish, or wath a slight upward 

 convexity, oblong obtuse in outline. 



Branches smoky brown or olive-grey, slightly hirtellous or 

 glabrous, marked with circular leaf-scars ; shoots given off nearly 

 at right angles. 



Leaves very fragrant, on the sterile branches densely crowded, 

 in many rows all of about the same length (10-12 lines), those on 

 the leader-shoot appressed, straight, with the white surface outer- 



Fig.. 3. 



Ahies amahilis.— OniVine of leaf-section magnified, showing the position of the 

 "^resin-canals in a fresh specimen, (From a sketch by Dr. Engelmami.) 



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most ; leaves on the lateral branches given off at an angle of GO''- 

 80°, all turned to one side, the uppermost appressed and parallel 

 to the long axis of the shoot, which they completely conceal, the 

 lowermost rather longer and diverging so as to expose the brownish 

 bark, all linear obtuse, notched at the apex or, in the case of the 

 smaller more crowded ones at the base of the shoots,, pointed, 

 dark shining green above, furrowed in the centre, and with few 

 or no stomata ; lower surface with a promiuent midrib, and with 

 a glaucous band with about six rows of stomata on either side 

 between it and the green recurved margins. On transverse 

 section the leaves have a somewhat oblong obtuse figure depressed 

 in the middle above, prominent beneath. The hypoderm or 

 strengthening cells are continuous throughout^ the palisaade cells 



