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obtusissimo, tres ad quinque pollices longi, diametro bipollicari, 
bracteis scariosis spadiceis arete reflexis squamas velantibus in- 
compti. Bractecx lamina spathulato dilatata membranacea, eroso 
lacera, incisa, aeumine elongato-subulato, rigido. Squamz la- 
melliformes, stipitatz;, minute undique puberule, limbo integer- 
rimo ineurvato. Semina ovata, compressa, basi acuta, superne 
in alam latam inzquilatere cuneatam, apice truncato irregulariter 
crenulatam producta. 
*. PiNUS rRaASERI Pursh. 
Abies foliis undique patentibus abbreviato linearibus 
planis retusis subtus argenteis, strobili ovato-oblongi erecti 
bracteis exsertis lancezformibus argute serrulatis reflexis, 
squamis stipitatis cuneato-orbicularibus. 
Pinus Fraseri Pursh Flor. Bor. Amer. II. 639. Lambert Pin. 
Ed. 2. HI. 14. t. 42. Antoine Conif. 6. t. 29. f. 1. 
Abies Fraseri Lindley in Penny-Cyclop. I. n. 5.  Pinet. Woburn. 
111. &. 38. Link in Linnea XV. 531. 
Picea Fraseri Loudon Arboret. Brit. IV. 2340. f. 2243. 2244. 
Abies balsamea (9, Fraseri" Spach Hist. nat. veg. phaner. XI. 422. 
Habitat in montibus altioribus Caroline, et in Pennsylvanice 
jugo Broad-mountains dieto. 
Arbor decempedalis, coma ramosissima, compacta. Folia un- 
dique inserta, subsecunda, linearia, plana, rigide coriacea, 
magnitudine varia, alia vix tres lineas longa, alia plus duplo 
longiora, omnia apice retusa vel sinu obtuso fere excisa, supra 
suleo exarata, nitida, subtus utrinque juxta nervum prominulum 
lete virentem stomatum fascia alba notata. Amenta staminigera 
in apice ramulorum axillaria, conferta, oblongo-clavata, foliis 
dimidio breviora, basi squamis membranaceis obovatis, pallide 
fuscis, scariosis, margine fimbriato-laceris perulata. Anthera- 
rum crista exilis, reniformis, callosa, integerrima. Strobili ver- 
sus ramulorum basim in foliorum axillis 2— 3 conferti, ovales, 
sesquipollicem v. duos pollices longi, cinereo fusci, papilloso pu- 
beruli. Bractez basi lineari squam:e dorso adnata, apice lanceae- 
formi acuto, mucronato, argute serrulato, interdum crenulato la- 
cero, pallide spadiceo longe exserto et arcte reflexo. Squame 
