ABIES. 89 
SEcrI0 H. ABIES. Strobili squama a rhachi persistente 
solutz, bracteis exsertis v. inclusis. — Folia distincte petio- 
lata, petiolis cylindricis, basi incrassatis, pulvinis decur- 
rentibus et superne ultra cicatricem orbicularem productis, 
ideo rhombeis, sz:epe obsoletis et parum conspicuis. 
Abies Link in Linnea XV. 525. Picea Don Loudon Arboret. 
Brit. IV. 2329. Peuce et Piceaster subgen. Abietis Spach Hist. 
nat. veg. phaner. XI. 414. 
* Bractee exserta. 
5. PiNUS BRACTEATA Don. 
Abies folüs subdistichis linearibus planis mucronatis 
subtus argenteis, strobili ovati erecti bracteis exsertis 
cuneato linearibus bilobis, lobis acutis divaricatis eroso- 
denticulatis nervo in cuspidem linearem squama multoties 
longiorem recurvato-nutantem producto, squamis e basi 
cuneata reniformi orbicularibus. 
Pinus braeteata Don in Linn. "Transact. XVII. 443. Lambert 
Pin. II. t. 91. Antoine Conif. 11. t. 30. 
Pinus venusta Douglas in Bot. Mag. Comp. H. 152. 
Picea bracteata Loudon Arboret. IV. 2348. f. 2250. 
Habitat in| montibus ad fluvium Columbia , sub 36? L. B. 
alt. 6000 juxta occidentale jugi clivum (Douglas), et in mon- 
tibus St. Lucie Californie alt. 3000 ( Coulter). 
»,Arbor elongato-pyramidata. "Truncus rectissimus, gracilli- 
mus, 120 pedes altus, erassatie ad basim vix pedali, tertia parte 
Jsuperiore ramis tantum onustus, cortice badio obductus. Rami 
,vertieillati, patentes; inferiores leviter decumbentes. Folia 
»conferta, undique inserta, bifariam tamen patentia, linearia, 
J,mucronata, plana, coriacea, rigida, bi- v. nunc fere tripolli- 
»caria, lineam circiter lata, supra laete viridia, nitida, lineaque 
»depressiuseula exarata, subtus argentea, margine parum revo- 
,luta, costa apiceque callosis. Strobili in ramis tantum adultio- 
,ribus solitarii, laterales, subsessiles, erecti, ovati, turgidi , vix 
»quadripollieares, diametro biunciales, basi squamis pluribus ovato- 
»oblongis, acutis, scariosis, laceris, spadiceis, revolutis, persi- 
»Stentibus muniti; squamis reniformi-rotundatis, concavis, stipi- 
