214 PICE A, OE 



tolerably flat, and densely covered witli 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 CHician Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Cilicica, Carrihre. 

 „ „ Tchugatskoi, Lawson. 

 ,, „ Sibirica alba, Fischer. 

 „ „ Pichta alba, Hort. 

 » „ „ Fisheri, Loudon. 



„ „ Rinzi, Rort. 

 „ Picea Sibirica alba, Hort. 

 „ „ Pichta alba, Hort. 

 » n „ longifolia, Hort. 



„ „ Rinzi, Hort. 

 „ Pinus CUicica, Kotschy. 

 » » Tchugatskoi, Fischer. 

 >' » Sibirica alba, Fischer. 

 ,, „ Pichta longifolia, Hort. 

 Leaves densely and irregularly arranged in two rows, and 



