TO THE HlSTORr OF CEHTAIN CONIFKKS. 



191 



A.nobilis robusta, Carriere, Traite, ii. p. 209, et liort. q^uo- 



rund. 



Piuus amabilis, Parlatore 



in 



BG. Prod. xvi. ii. 42(5, 



partly; Mc^ab in Froc. R. Irish Acad. vol. ii. (1876), 

 p. 700, t. 49. f. 30. 



Pseudotsuga magniflca, McNab in Froc. B. Irish Acad 

 ser, 2, ii, p. 700, t. 49. f. 30, 30 « (187G). 



'' Califoruia, Mount Shasta, south along the western t^lope 

 of the Sierra JVevadas to Kern County," Sargent^ L c. 



Fig. 20, 



Leaves and leaf-section of Ahies nohUls, var. viagnifica. a, a, resin-canals* 



To this variety may be referred, specimens received from 

 California, Lohb 441, a^l (1852) !, Lemmon \ Mount Stan- 

 ford, Silver Pa^s and Shasta, IlooJcer and Gray I ] lioezll; 

 Low ! ; Gordon in herb. ! 



Fig. 21. 



X.2. 



Seed-scales of A, nobilis, var. wacnifica. a, from the back, shewing tlie bract ; 



and B, from the i'ront, shewing the seed. Kative specimen. 



