510 ON THE SYNONYMY OF VARIOUS CONIFERS. 
Here we have undoubtedly the first publication of the name Abies 
grandis ; unfortunately the species is not that meant by Douglas to be 
so called. We believe it to be what he intended to be called amabilis; 
what he meant for grandis was the other species described next year 
by Dr. Lindley under that, пато, 
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1832.—A niEs AMABILIS (grandis of Lindley and Hort.) 
Dr. Lindley's description of Abies grandis is given in the Penny Cyclo- 
pedia (published in 1833), under the article Abies. It is short; but shows 
sufficiently that, with characteristic conscientiousness, he took nothing for 
_ granted, but described, what he supposed to be the same species as Lam 
4.—А. grandis, under side. 
materials which, if it were ever justifiable, might surely have been so in 800 
a compilation as an eneyclopedia. We wish he had, for it is now plain 
took his deserip : 
Foie Herbarium, we may be satisfied that his description applies to 
tion of this in the figure of the cone, seale, and bract, given by the next 
(1888), who, equally conscientious in his own way, tells 
us that one specified portion of his figures is copied from Lambert's figure, 
and that imens of 
