1048 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
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 ; Gin. 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 ; laminz dilated, membranaceous ; 
points elongated, awl-shaped, rigid. Seeds 
oblong, with a coriaceous testa; wing broad, 1963. P. nébilis. 
axe-shaped, thinly membranaceous, pale-co- 
loured; nearly allied to P. Fraseri, but with cones five times as large. 
(Lamb.) According to Douglas (Comp. Bot. Mag., ii. p. 147.), this is a 
majestic tree, forming vast forests upon the mountains of Northern California, 
and producing timber of excellent quality. “ I spent three weeks in a forest 
composed of this tree,” he says, “and, day by day, could not cease to admire it.” 
2 11. P.pracrea‘ta. The leafy-bracted Silver Fir. 
Synonymes. Pinus bracteata D. Don in Lin. Trans. 17. p. 443., Lamb. Pin. 3.; P. ventsta Dough 
in Comp. to Bot. Mag. 2. p. 152. 
1964. P. bracteata. 
