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"while those on the coi:)e-heariiig branches are four-sided, 

 1| inch long, upturned, and Avith the midrib prominent on 

 both surfaces. The olive-brown cones are in form more 

 nearly like those o^ magnlfica, as also are the scales, but the 

 long golden-brown bracts are more like those of A, nohihs. 

 Instead of being deflexed, however, they project at right 

 angles as shown in the illustration (PL V.). In one of 

 the cones the bracts, as they dried, became partially bent 

 downward, but this was not the case with the other two 

 cones. Little stress, however, can be placed on the direction 

 of the bracts, nor even on their relative length. Alexander 

 Braun (Sitz. Bot. Vereins Brandenburg, June 26, 1874, 

 describes a cone of another species wherein the bracts and 

 scales of the upper half of the cone were reflexed, while those 

 in the lower part were in their usual position. Professor 

 Sargent writing in the Gard. Chron., January 2, 1886, of 

 the illustration above referred to (PL V.), considers it to 

 represent probably a form of maynifica with esserted bracts, 

 and Mr. Syme also, in litt. (Feb- 1880), considers the foliage 

 to be more decidedly like that of ^4. magnifica than that of 

 A, nohilis. The cone, too, is more like that of magnifica except 

 for the exsert bracts. Sargent also adopts Engelmaun's latest 

 views published in Coulter's * Botanical Gazette,' vii- p. 4, 

 as follows :— " Alies nolilis (Douglas), Lindiey, is peculiar to 

 the higher mountains of Oregon, and has not yet been found 

 in California, nor, as far as I can see, in Washington Terri- 

 tory. Its greenish leaves crowded on the branchleta, and its 

 large purple cones, with long exsert recurved bracts, well 

 characterize it. The tree on Mount Shasta which has gone 

 by this name (also in the 'Flora of California') is di.-tin- 

 guished by its quadrangular leaves keeled on the upper side ; 

 its large cones considerably resemble those of nolilis and 

 have often, not always, exsert and recurved bracts. It 3s a 

 form of A. mognifiea^ Murray, the common Ked Tir of the 

 Califbrniau Sierras, which has bracts normally enclosed." 



Abies religiosa, ScMecL (Plate YI.) 



Abies religiosa, ScMedendal in Linnwa, v. p. 77; LincUey, 

 SpacJi ; Carriere ; Mast, in Gard. Chron. Jan. 10, 1885, p. 56. 

 Picea religiosa, Loudon,^ Arhoretum, iv. p. 23i9; Gordon) 



Mui^av in Gard. Chroy) Anril 90 1S7« 



