ON THE SYNONYMY OF VARIOUS CONIFERS. 509 
three and a half in diameter, and of a more obese form than that of the 
next species. Fig. 2 is copied from the figure of the scale and bract. 
We attach very great importance to the form of the bract. It is the 
most reliable specific character which we know of in these closely allied 
species, and will be found a guide when the form of the leaves and scales 
Fig, 1.—A. grandis, 
(Copied from Lambert.) 
of the cone furnish no indication, That in this instance it was not repre- 
sented as a mere conventional appendage of no particular form, we may 
gather from its being figured twice,—once attached to the scale, and a 
second time separated from it; and Lambert’s description corresponds 
with his figures. His words are, “ Bracteole ovate acuminate, margine 
erose степа squamis plurimum breviores incluse." 
As to the foliage, we have Lambert's figure above copied; there is also a 
not very characteristic specimen at Kew along with a broken-down cone, 
and we have the young plants reared from Douglas's seeds. These have 
more of the habit and appearance of Nordmanniana than of either ama- 
bilis or the other species to be presently mentioned, but are distinct from 
them all. 'The leaves are much more numerous, and the branchlets are 
closely and thickly feathered on the upper side as well as laterally (see fig. 
3) usually lying flat forwards, but sometimes curled upwards as in A. 
nobilis. The foliage of the young plants certainly differs widely in this 
respect from that figured by Lambert, but as the young plants cannot be 
doubted to have been raised from the seeds sent by Douglas, this must be 
referred to the fault of the artist or the defect of the specimen copied. 
The leaves are of a darker and glossier-green, of a closer texture, and very 
evidently emarginate at the tip, and much more silvery beneath. There 
are no stomata on the upper side, and those on the under side are smaller 
and more regular than in A. amabilis, and the rows on each side of the 
midrib are on the whole more numerous, being about 8 instead of about 
6 (fig. 9). It has the habit of A. Nordmanniana, but its leaves are larger, 
and the rows of stomata on the under side more numerous. 
