818 ON THE SYNONYMY OF VARIOUS CONIFERS. 
1862.— Undescribed Species—ABIES MAGNIFICA. 
_ About this date, Mr. Lobb, the botanical collector and explorer, found a 
silver fir growing on the high unexplored part of the Sierra Nevada, to the 
eastward of San Francisco, and transmitted cones and seeds to Messrs. Low, 
of Clapton. These gentlemen have had the kindness to place their unique 
Specimen in our hands for examination. It is nearly cylindrical, nine 
inches in length, three inches in diameter, and not much narrowed at the top 
ог base. ether the tree may deserve the appellation which we have 
bestowed upon it, we do not know; but, certainly, the cone may we 
be called magnificent. Figs. 25 and 26 represent its scale and bract 
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Fig. 25,—Braet and scale of Abies Fig. 26.—Inner side of scale of Abies 
magnifica, magnifica. 
of the size of nature, and fig. 97 one of the seeds. The bract is 
long, and not unlike that of Lambert's А, grandis, but the foliage 
is quite distinct. Fig. 98 represents the phyllule on the stalk, which 
show that the leaves are pretty numerous. In the old branches the 
phylluli are rhomboidal, with an elongated depression in the middle; 1n 
the young plants the phyllule are rounded. ‘The old leaves (fortunately 
опе or two remain attached to the stalk of the cone) are tetragonal, short 
апа stout, deeply grooved, and curved, resembling à thickened leaf of А. 
—nobilis (figs. 29). The termination of the leaf is variable, being sometimes 
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Abies magnifica of Abies magnifica. 
acute and sometimes obtuse, not always bevelled off from behind; and 
these variations are not confined to particular periods of growth, but are 
een growing side by side. There is no peduncle, nor are the leaves twisted 
at the base, with the exception of a very slight bend occasionally in the 
young leaves ; showing that they grow equally disposed around the stalk. 
