3 50 PICEA ; OR 



and a quarter In length, and five- eighths of an inch broad in the 

 widest part. 



A noble tree, growing 200 feet high, with regular, horizontal, 

 spreading branches, and cinnamon-coloured bark, forming vast 

 forests upon the mountains of Northern California. 



It is found growing on the North- West Coast of North 

 America, along the banks of the Columbia River, and on the 

 mountains of Northern California. Mr. Jeffrey found it on the 

 Shasta Mountains at an elevation of from 6,000 to 8,000 feet, a 

 tree 200 feet high and four feet in diameter, growing in red 

 loamy soil. 



No. 7. PiCEA NoRDMANNiANA, Loudon, Nordmann's Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Nordmanniana, lAnk. \ 

 „ Pinus Nordmanniana, Stevens. 



Leaves, solitary, in two rows, curved upwards, nearly equal 

 in length, linear, one inch long, with the point emarginate ; pale 

 yellowish green above, channelled below, with a silver glaucous 

 line each side of the mid-rib, equal in breadth to the keel, and 

 thickened margins, more or less twisted at the base, and flat. 

 Branches, dense, and regularly disposed, the lower ones hori- 

 zontal, the upper ones rising at a more acute angle. • Cones, on 

 very short footstalks, erect on the upper side of the branches, 

 live inches long, two inches and a half in diameter, and egg- 

 shaped, a little blunted at the ends. Scales, closely adpressed, 

 cup- shaped, very obtuse, nearly one inch and a half in breadth, 

 and the same in the full length ; somewhat recurved, smooth, 

 entire, and falling off when the seeds are ripe. Bracteas, adher- 

 ing to the narrow base of the scales, but afterwards free and 

 extending beyond the scales, getting wider by degrees from the 

 base outwards, rarely ovate, often cordate, reflexed at the apex, 

 and incumbent on the lower scale, with the point a line and a 

 half long. Seeds, triangular, soft, and two under each scale. 

 Wing, obliquely expanded, membranous, with the inner margin 

 straight, and ripe in September. Stem, exceedingly straight, 

 and from eighty to a hundred feet high, and three feet in 

 diameter, with a smooth bark when full grown. 



