LXXVII. CONI'FER^E: PI'CEA. 



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Spec. Char., S/-c. Leaves linear, emarginate, silvery beneath. Cones oblong, 

 squarrose. Bracteoles somewhat leafy, obcordate, mucronate, half-exserted, 

 reflexed. (Z)em.) A tree so closely resembling the preceding kind, that it 

 is unnecessary to describe 

 it. Pursh found it on high 

 mountains in Carolina, re- 

 sembling, he says, P. bal- 

 samea in several respects, 



1955. P. Kraseri. 



1956. P. Fraseri. 



but differing, at first sight, in being a smaller tree, the leaves shorter and 



more erect, and the cones not one fourth the size. Introduced in 1811. 



The original tree is in the Hammersmith 

 Nursery, where, in 1837, it was 15 ft. high, 

 and had, for two or three years, produced 

 cones, but no male catkins. This last circum- 

 stance has given rise to the idea that the male 

 and female are produced by different trees, 

 which is exceedingly improbable. Propagated 

 by cuttings. 



C. Natives of California. 



1 8. P. GRA'NDIS. The great Silver Fir. 



Synonymes. Pinus grAndis Dougl. MS. Lamb. Pin. 3. t. 

 ' 94. ; /Tbies grandis Lindl. in Penny Cycl. No. 3. ; the 



great Californian Fir. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., 3. t. 94.; our fig. 1959. from 



Lambert's Pinus, vol. iii. ; and figs. 1957. and 1958. from 



Douglas's specimens in the herbarium of the Horticultural 



Society, and from the tree in the gar en. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves flat, obtuse, emargi- 

 nate, pectinate, silvery beneath. Cones 

 cylindrical ; bracteoles ovate, acuminate, ir- 

 regularly dentate, very short. (D. Don.) 

 Leaves from in. to 1 in. long. Cones, 



1957. P.grimdis. 



according to Lambert, 6 in. long, and 3 in. 

 broad ; but in Douglas's specimens the 

 largest cones are only 3 in. long, and 2 in. 

 broad, the others being much smaller. Scale 

 fin. long, and f in. broad. Seed small ; with 



3x 3 



1958. P. grAndig, 



