5.2 SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUxlI. 



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PiCEA GRAXDiP; Loudon, the Great Californian Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Pinus grandis, Douglas. 

 „ Abie^ grandis, Lindley. 

 „ Pice a Parsonsii, Hort. America. 

 „ „ sp. (Vancouver's Island), Bridges. 



Leaves, linear, flat, channelled above, emarginate, or with a 

 small notch at the point, and all irregularly arranged horizon- 

 tally in double rovrs on each side of the branchlets, in a more 

 or less pectinate manner, on short twisted footstalks ; those 

 forming the upper tiers on each side of the shoots are much 

 the shortest, and little more than three quarters of an inch in 

 length, while the majority of those comprising the under series 

 are of various lengths, and nearly double that of the upper 

 ones, but not broader, and all of a deep glossy green above, 

 and with two silvery white bands below, between the mid-rib 

 and thickened naargins, both of which are of a bright green 

 colour. Branches mostly in horizontal whorls, flat, and spread- 

 ing ; branchlets glossy, smooth, rather short, compact, and 

 placed laterally in two horizontal rows, and when young, with 

 quite a varnished appearance. Cones erect, cylindrical, and 

 from oi to 4 inches long, and Ig inch broad; scales broad 

 transversely, crescent shaped, rounded on the exposed part, in- 

 curved at the edges, closely placed, tolerably equal in size, 

 downy externally, deciduous when fi-^Hy matured, and with the 

 small fringed dorsal bracteas entirely hidden by the overlapping 

 scales j seeds small, angular, soft, and with persistent wings, 

 three quarters of an inch long. 



A noble tree, always found in moist valleys, growing from 

 150 to 200 feet high, and very much resembling the common 

 Silver Fir when old, but diiFering in the young shoots having 

 a glossy or polished appearance, and in its much smaller cones, 

 with hidden dorsal bracteas. 



It was first discovered by Douglas in Northern California, 

 but more recently Mr. Bridges and others found it in British Co- 



