ABIES BKACTEATA. 



495 



with a small spur projecting from the dorsal side. Cones solitary 

 erect, ovoid-globose, 2'25 35 inches long and 1-752-25 inches broad 

 scales transversely roundish oblong or sub-reniform, less than an inch IOM 

 J-6 inch broad, with a cuneate claw and incurved at the apical 

 margin; bract oblong-cuneate, adnate to the scale to beyond the middle, 

 then contracted to a projecting linear, rigid spine about 2 inches lone.-' 

 sometimes curved. Seed wings sub-quadrate, nearly as broad as lone.- 



Fig. 128 Cone of Abies bracteato.. 



Abies bracteata, Nuttall, Sylva N. Amer. III. 137, t. 118 (1849). Hooker, W. 

 Boc. Mag. t. 4740 (1853). Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1853, p. 435. Carriere, 

 Traite Conif. ed. II. 265. McNab in Proceed. R. Irish Acad. II. ser. 2, 674, fig. 1. 

 Engelmann in Gard. Chron. IX. (1878), p. 334 ; XII. (1879), p. 684 ; and Brewer 

 and Watson's Bot. Calitbr. II. 118. Masters in Gard. Chron. V. ser. 3 (1889), 

 p. 242, with fig. ; VII. ser. 3 (1890), p. 672, with fig. ; and Journ. R Hort. Soc. 

 XIV. 199. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 488, with fig. 



A. venusta, Koch. Dendrol. II. 210 (1873). Sargent, Silva N. Amer. XII. 129, 

 tt. 615, 616. 



Picea bracteata, London, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2348, Avith tig. (1838). Gordon., 

 Pinet. ed. II. 202. Lawson, Pinet. Brit. II. 171, tt. 25, 26, Avith figs. Coleman 

 in The Garden, XXXV. (1889), p. 12, Avith fig. 



Pinus bracteata, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 442 (1837). Lambert, Genus Pinus, 

 III. 169, t. 91. Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 89. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 419. 



P. venusta, Douglas in Comp. Bot. Mag. II. 152, nomen nudum (1836). 



Eng. Santa Lucia Fir. Amer. Bristle-coned Fir. Fr. Sapin h bractees, 

 Germ. Santa Lucia Tanne. Ital. Abete di Santa Lucia. 



