LXXVII. CONI'FERE: PI/CEA. 1047 
wing £in. broad. The cone in Douglas’s specimen is about twice as 
large as those sent home by him of P. grandis, and the leaves are 
entire, instead of being emarginate; but, in other respects, we have been 
quite unable to discover any difference, either between the dried specimens 
or the young plants, worthy of being considered specific. The cones were 
sent home by Douglas in 1831, without any further information than the 
name, As there are young plants in the Chiswick Garden, al) that is here 
said must be considered as provisional, till these plants have shown some 
characteristic features by which they may be either distinguished from, or 
associated with, other species. 
210. P. no’sinis. The noble, or large-bracted, Silver Fir. 
Synonymes. Pinus nobilis Doug. MS., Lamb. Pin. 2. last fig.; A. n6bilis Lindl. in Penny Cyc. No. 5. 
Engravings. Lamb. Pin. Icon.; and our figs. 1962. and 1963., from Douglas’s specimens in the 
herbarium of the Horticultural Society. 
Spec. Char., §c. 
Leaves mostly 
on one side of 
the branches, 
falcate, short, 
acute, silvery 
beneath. Cones 
cylindrical; the 
bracteoles elon- 
gated, spathu- 
late, gnawed, 
and imbricated 
backwards. (D. 
Don.) Leaves 
13 in. long. 
Cone 63in. long, 
sessile’; 23 in. 
broad. Scale 
triangular; with- 
out the bractea, 
12 in. long, and 
the same in 
breadth; bractea 
Sin. long. Seed 
small, irregular ; 
with the wing, 
11 in. in length. 
Wing Sin. broad 
in the widest 
part. Cotyle- 
dons, ?. A 
majestic tree. 
Northern Cali- 
fornia, forming 
vast forests on 
the mountains. 
Height, ?,  In- 
troduced in 
1631, and very 
rare in British 
gardens. 
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iN M 
Ni 
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Leaves crowd- 
ed, 2-rowed, linear, 
1962. P. nobilis. 
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