156 PICEA; OR 



bifid at the ends, and quite entire, of a deep, shining green above, 

 and silvery beneath, from one to one and a half inch long, and 

 spreading. Branches, in whorls, horizontal, flat, and distant. 

 Cones, solitary, erect, bluntly cylindrical, three inches and a 

 half long, and an inch and a half broad. Scales, very broad 

 transversely, and deciduous, or falling off when ripe, incurved on 

 the margins, entire, and smooth, three-quarters of an inch 

 broad, and nearly the same long ; bracteas hidden below the 

 scales, irregularly toothed on the margin, very short, wedge- 

 shaped, and truncate. Seeds, small, angular, and soft, with a 

 wing three-quarters of an inch long. Seed-leaves five in 

 number. 



A noble tree, very similar in appearance to the common 

 Silver Fir, growing 180 or 200 feet high, with a brown, scaly 

 bark. 



It is a native of Northern California, in low, moist valleys, 

 growing along the banks of rivers. Jeffrey found it on the 

 banks of Eraser's River, from the Falls, all the way down to the 

 ocean, but particularly on the alluvial banks of the river near 

 Fort Langley, growing 280 feet high, five feet in diameter, and 

 fifty feet without branches. It is also found on the banks of 

 the river at South Umpqua. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 13. PiCEA PiCHTA, Loudon, the Pitch or Siberian Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Pichta, Fischer. 

 „ Abies Sibirica, Ledebour. 

 „ Pinus Sibirica, Steudel. 

 „ Pinus Pichta, Fischer, 

 „ Picea Sibirica, Hort. 



Leaves, solitary, irregularly two-rowed or scattered, and very 

 thickly set round the branches, linear, blunt-pointed, flat, dark 

 green, with a very slight trace of the glaucous appearance on 

 the under side, and mostly curved upwards towards the point. 

 Branches, at first horizontal, but afterwards, as they get older, 

 become rather pendulous at the extremities. Cones, erect. 



