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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III- 



Bott JTag., ii. p. 147.) A native of northern California, in low moist valleys 

 where it attains the height of 200 ft. The wood is soft, white, and of inferior 

 quality, like P. religiosa, to which, according to Professor Don, it is nearly 

 related. It resembles the cedar of Lebanon in the form and structure of its 

 cones, which are three times the length of the leaves ; with ovate-acuminate 

 bracteas, much shorter than the scales. (D. Don.} The plant in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's Garden was, in 1837, 1 ft, high. 



* 6. P. ama'bilis Dong. The lovely Silver Fir. 



Synonyme. Plnus amabilis Douglas MS. 



Engravings. Our jigs. 2247J 2248., from Douglas's specimens in the herbarium of the Hort. Soc. 



Spec. Char., <fyc. Leaves flat, 

 obtuse, entire. Cones cy- 

 lindrical; bracteoles very 

 short, pointed. Scale tri- 

 angular; the upper margin 

 rounded, entire. Leaves, 

 on Douglas's specimen, 

 ]i in. long, and on the 

 young plant in the Hor- 

 ticultural Society's Gar- 

 den, fin. long. ConesGin. 

 long, and 2^ in. broad. 

 Scales, Ii in. broad, and 

 about liin. long. Seed, 



with the wing, 1 in. long; 

 wing fin. broad. The 

 cone in Douglas's speci- 

 men 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 dis- 

 cover any difference, either 

 between the dried speci- 

 mens, or the young plants, 

 worthy of being consi- 

 dered 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, all 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. 



T ', . P. no'bims Dougl. The noble, or largc-bracted, Silver Fir. 



',iii,',i,i,t,, /'..>. a6Mi$ Doug. MS. t Lamb. Pin.fji., last fig.; //. nolnlis Lindl. m Penny Cyc, No. 5. 

 Engravingi. Lamb. Pin. loon.: and our Jigs. 2249. 



:ri.gramng*. 

 herbarium of the Horticultural Society. 



and 2250., from Douglas's specimens in the 



Sp>< . Char.fSfC Leaves mostly on one side of the branches, falcate, short, 

 acute, silvery beneath. Cones cylindrical; bracteoles elongated, spathulate, 



