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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANN ICUM. 



falcate, for the most part acute, compressed 

 trigonal ; flat above, marked with a depressed 

 line ; silvery beneath ; scarcely 1 in. long. 

 Cones solitary, lateral, cylindrical, thick, 

 brownish ; 6 in. to 7 in. long, and 8 in. to 9 in. in 

 circumference ; scales lamelliform, stipulate, co- 

 piously covered with minute down ; incurved, 

 and quite entire on the margin. Bracteoles 

 much exserted,spathulate,adpressed backwards, 

 imbricated ; laminae dilated, membranaceous ; 

 points elongated, awl-shaped, rigid. Seeds 

 oblong, with a coriaceous testa ; wing broad, 

 axe-shaped, thinly membranaceous, pale-co- 

 loured ; nearly allied to P. Fraseri, but with cones five times as large. 

 {Lamb.) According to Douglas (Comp. Hot. Mag., ii. p. 14-7.), this is a 

 majestic tree, forming vast forests upon the mountains of Northern California, 

 and producing timber of excellent quality. " J spent three weeks in a forest 

 composed of this tree," he says, " and, day by day, could not cease to admire it." 



1 11. P. BRACTEA'TA. The leafy-bracted Silver Fir. 



Synonymes. Plnus bractekta D. Don in Lin. Trans. 17. p. 443., Lamb. Pin. 3. ; P. venusta DovgL 

 in Comp. to Sot. Mag. 2. p. 152. 



1963. P. ndbilis. 



1964. /'. braete;ita. 



