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above, obtuse, laterally warped or carinated ; seeds proper, ovate, 

 light brown or drab color, uniformly mai'ked by three minute ovate 

 glands on the side lookins; towards the base of the cone. 



Male aments on long stipes in sub-cylindrical capitula ; the race- 

 mose clusters of three to seven, (each singly springing from a brown- 

 ish scaly bud,) arranged towards the base of the coniferous branchlets, 

 or rather above (speaking with reference to their natural pendent 

 position,) thus facilitating the fructification of the cones below. 



Cones about an inch long, five-eighths broad, pale cinnamon brown. 

 The bract scales at the base of the cones, persistent, imbricate in*, 

 several diminishing series ; the five inner linear, membranaceous, 

 twice the length of the second series which are broad ovate ; the 

 remainder in similar form successively decreasing. The leaves very 

 variable in length, exceedingly numerous and somewhat plumosely 

 scattered on the upper side of the branchlets, uniformly on petioles 

 one-sixteenth of an inch, bright shining green above, glaucous be- 

 neath. 



A tree eighty to one hundred feet in height, of dark verdure and 

 graceful appearance ; the branchlets are very villous, slender and 

 drooping. Abundant on both north and south banks of Frazer river. 

 The timber is firmer, finer and straighter grained than the Canadian 

 hemlock spruce, which it represents on the Pacific Coast. 



The fruit is remarkably abundant ; e. g.,a, specimen of eight inches 

 long, has sixty cones. 



The branchlets are also equally numerous, and like the Canadian 

 spruce, it probably varies much in this respect. 



April 25, 1859. 



President in the Chair. 



Dr. Kellogg exhibited a drawing, accompanied by specimens of a 

 new species of Fritillaria, from New Idria, California ; presented by 

 Dr. Veatch, and cultivated by H. G. Bloomer. 



F. viridea, (Kellogg). — Stem eight inches to one foot high, three 

 to six-flowered. 



Leaves lance-linear sub-acute ; fleshy lowermost leaves in a whorl 

 of three or four, upper alternate. (Its own proper solitary radical 

 leaf disappearing, when of sufficient age and strength to fruit.) 

 Radical leaf ovate-lanceolate, entire, glabrous, fleshy ; about eight- 

 nerved, slightly folding, and tapering into a short grooved petiole. 



Flowers pale greenish ; nectariferous portion, darker green ; not 

 spotted, somewhat translucently nerved, small, about four or five, 



