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CONI'FER.E. PI/CEA. 



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gnawed, imbri- 

 cated backwards 

 (Don in Lamb. 

 Pin.) Leaves 

 l£ in. long. 

 Cone G^in. long, 

 sessile ; 2f in. 

 broad. Scale 

 triangular; with- 

 out the bractea, 

 li in. long, and 

 the same in 

 breadth; bractea 

 f-in. long. Seed 

 small, irregular; 

 with the wing, 

 li in. in length. 

 Wing | in. broad 

 in the widest 

 part. Cotyle- 

 dons,?. Natives 

 of the north- 

 west of North 

 America, where 

 it was discover- 

 ed by Douglas, 

 and introduced 

 in 1831. 

 Description, fyc. 

 A large tree, with 

 cinnamon colour- 

 ed bark. Leaves 

 crowded, 2-rowed, 

 linear, falcate, for 

 the most part 

 acute, compressed 

 trigonal ; flat a- 

 bove, marked with 

 a depressed line; 

 silvery beneath ; 

 scarcely 1 in. long. 

 Cones solitary, la- 

 teral, cylindrical, 



thick; brownish; 6 — 7 in. long, and 8 — 9 in. in circumference : scales lamelli- 

 form, stipulate, copiously covered with minute down; incurved and quite 

 entire on the margin. Bracteoles much ex- 

 serted, spathulate, adpressed backwards, im- 

 bricated ; laminae dilated, membranaceous ; 

 points elongated, awl-shaped, rigid. Seeds 

 oblong, with a coriaceous testa : wing broad, 

 axe-shaped, thinly membranaceous, pale-co- 

 loured ; nearly allied to P. Frasen, 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 produc- 

 ing 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." The plant in the Horticultural Society's Garden 



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