214 fICEA, OB, 



tolerably flat, and densely covered with leaves. Cones, erect, 

 solitary, large, ovate-cylindrical, six inches long, and two inches 

 and a half broad, slightly tapering to both ends, and woolly 

 when young. Scales, smooth, round, and entire, an inch and a 

 quarter broad, and about the same long, and falling off when 

 the cones are ripe. Bracteas very short, and concealed by the 

 scales. Seeds, angular and soft, with membranaceous wings. 



A magnificent tree, seen towering above all others in its 

 native forests in Northern California, growing 200 feet high 

 on the mountains east of Fraser's River, in latitude 50. Mr. 

 Jeffrey found it growing on the sloping sides of the mountains 

 at an elevation of 4000 feet, with the leaves very small, dark- 

 green above, and silvery beneath, and. with the branches hori- 

 zontal, short and bushy, growing 250 feet high, in a gravelly 

 soil, and five feet in diameter, with sixty feet of the stem 

 without branches ; the bark of the young trees are covered 

 with large blisters, filled with resinous matter. 



It is called " Mareilp " by the American Indians, and is 

 quite hardy. 



No. 14. Picea Cilicica, Ranch, the Cilician Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Cilicica, Carriere. 

 Tchugatskoi, Laivson, 

 Sibirica alba, Fischer. 

 Pichta alba, Hort. 

 ,> Fisheri, Loudon. 



Rinzi, Hort. 

 Picea Sibirica alba, Hort. 

 Pichta alba, Hort. 

 longifolia, Hort. 



Rinzi, Hort. 

 Pinus Cilicica, Kotschy. 

 v Tchugatskoi, Fischer. 

 Sibirica alba, Fischer. 

 Pichta longifolia, Hort. 

 Leaves densely and irregularly arranged in two rows, and 



