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coni'feua:. pi'cea. 



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Plants, in the 



supposed to be the female, of the same age, was -i ft. high. 

 London nurseries, are 5s. each; and at BoUwyller, 3 francs. 

 5 5. P. gra'ndis Dougl. The great Silver Fir. 



Synonymes. Plnus grandis Dougl. MS., Lamb. Pin., 3. t. 94. ; ^^bies grandis Lindl. in Penny 

 Cyc/., No. 3. ; the great Californian Fir. . 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., 3. t. 94. ; ouxfi-^.l'iio. from Lambert's Pinus, vol. m., and J^. 2246., from 

 Douglas's specimens in the herbarium of the Horticultural Society, and the tree in the garden. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves flat, obtuse, emargi- 

 nate, pectinate, silvery beneath. Cones cylin- 

 drical; bracteoles ovate, acuminate, irregu- 



larly dentate, very short, {Don in Lamb. Pin.) 

 Leaves from |^ in. to 1 in, long. Cones, ac- 

 cording to Lambert, 6^ in. long and 3iin. 

 broad ; but in Douglas's specimens the largest 

 cones are only 3^ in. long, and 2 in. broad,tlie 

 others being much smaller. Scale fin. long, 

 and f in. broad. Seed small; with the wing, 

 fin. long, and fin. broad. A native of the 

 north-west of America; discovered by Dou- 

 glas, and introduced by him in 1831. 22-l'6 



Description. A noble tree, akin to P. balsamea, growing from 170 ft. 

 to 200 ft. high, with a brown bark. Leaves pectinate and spreading, linear, 

 roundish at the apex, emarginate, callous on the margin, quite entire; green 

 and shining above, silvery beneath, somewhat dilated towards the apex ; 

 1 in. long. Cones lateral solitary, cylindrical, obtuse, very similar to P. 

 Cedrus, but larger, 6 in. long, of a chestnut-brown colour; scales transverse, 

 very broad, lamelliform, deciduous, stalked, incurved on the margin, quite 

 entire. Bracteoles ovate-acuminate, irregularly crenulate on the margin, 

 much shorter than the scales, included. Seeds oblong, with a coriaceous 

 testa ; wing very broad, axe-shaped, truncate at the apex, slightly scarious 

 and membranaceous, brittle, shining, pale. {Lamb, and Dougl. in Camp. 



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