5/i 
Clafs Monoecia. Ord. Monadelphia. 
Li 
in. Gen. Plant. 1077. 
Ef Gen. 
o 
Masg. Cal. 4-phyllus. 
Anther a nudae. 
Cor. 
o. 
St am., plurima. 
Fem. C4L flrobili : fquama 2-flora.. C 
or. o. 
Nux ala membran 
P^. 1. 
\ 
cea excepta. 
Sfi Ch. 
■ 
P. foliis geminis rigidis, conis 
foliorum fubgeminis bafi rotundatis. 
ovato-conicis 
■ Hort. Kew. 
ongitudine 
TPI I S 
tree grows ufually ftraight, tapering, and to a great height 
fo as to be made into good mails for mips : the branches are numerous' 
divaricating, and like the ftem covered with rough bark of a reddifh 
brown colour: the leaves ftand in pairs, and are united at the bale with 
the fheath ; they are two or three inches long, convex on one fide, 
concave on the other,, very narrow, linear,, fkiated, fome what pointed) 
of a deep green glaucous colour, and furround the ends of the fmaller 
branches : the flowers are male and female upon the fame tree ; the 
former ftand in bunches without any calyx, unlefs the loofe fcales be 
confidered as fuch : there is no corolla : the filaments are numerous, 
united at the bottom, forming an upright pillar r and furnifhed with 
erecT: antherse : the latter conhfts of a calyx, or common cone, which 
h fmall, compofed of fcales, with two flowers in each ; the cones are 
oblong, imbricated, permanent, inflexible : there is no corolla : the 
germen is very fmall, producing a tapering ftyle, terminated by a 
fimple ftigma: there is no capfule, but the fcales of the cone, which 
before flood open clofe upon the feed or nut, which is fupplied with 
a membranaceous wing.. 
It is a native of Scotland, efpecially among the highland mountains, 
and hence named Scotch Fir. It nouriihes beft in a poor fandy foil. 
In black r boggy or chalky ground, or near ftagnant waters, it does not 
thrive. The wood is ufed for various purpofes r and the inner bark 
is, by the inhabitants of the north of Europe, made into a kind of 
bread. 
Though moft fpecies of Fir ponefs in common the fame medicinal 
properties, and all agree in affording the different produfts of the 
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turpentine 
