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AUBOKliTUAJ AND F RUTICETUM. 



PA I IT 



2 LO. P. hracte.Ota J). Don. The feo^-bracted Silver Fir, 



Sg no mp m es . 7'inus bracteuta /./«. Trans., 17. p. 4W , Lamb. Pin., 3. ; P. venusta Dougl. in Cotnp. 



to Hot. Mag.. 2. p. 152, 



nmsgs. Lamb. Pin., 3. t 91. j and oury/^. 2256. from Lambert. 

 Spec. (.7;<!/., \c. Loaves 2-rowed, linear, mucronate, flat, silvery beneath. Cones ovate. Bracteoles 



SJobed ; the middle division very long, leaf-like, recurved. {D. Don.) Cones 4 in. long. Bractea 



nearly 8 in. long. Leaves 2 in. long. A huge tree, a native of California, discovered by Douglas in 

 .iid about the same period by Dr. Coulter, but not yet introduced. 



Description, \\\ An elongated pyramidal tree. Trunk very>traight and slender, 120 ft. high; scarcely 

 1 ft. in diameter at base ; only the upper third covered with branches. Bark chestnut-brown. Branches 

 verticillate, spreading ; lower ones slightly decumbent Leaves crowded, scattered in insertion ; but 

 2-rowed, linear, mueronate, flat, coriaceous, rigid; 2 in. to Sin. long, 1 line broad ; light green, and 

 shining above, marked with ;>. depressed line; silvery beneath, slightly revolute on the margin; 

 midrib and apex callous. Cones on adult branches oniy, solitary, lateral, almost sessile, erect, ovate 

 turgul ; 4 in. long, and 2 in. in diameter; with numerous, ovate-oblong, acute, scarious, torn, bright 

 brown, revolute, persistent scales, at the base; scales kidney-shaped, roundish, concave, stalked, 

 thick, indurated ; pale brown, incurved on the margin, crenulate, glaucous externally ; stalk sharply 

 keeled above, shorter than the disk. Bracteas wedge-shaped, adpressed, coriaceous, rigid; of the 



but shorter ; adnata and callous below, 3-lobed at the apex : lobes lateral, 



i , irregularly dentate; middle one recurved, 1* in. long, resembling true leaves 



-t, I, ur. only hall the breadth. Seeds wedge. shaped, oblong, tetragonal; exterior 



; rown, disjoined, and open at the interior angle, where the nucleus is 



: with the apex extended into the unequally sided, obovate, quite entire, thinly membrana- 



o wing Nucleus included in a cruttaceOUl, dark brown, proper testa (secun- 



\H ■/.' by a very short, membranaceous ragged witig. (Don in Lin. Trans.) 



■ ■/ pcci( ot dr was discovered by Douglas, in March, 18.32, on the high 



\>r. Coulter found it on the sea side; range of Santa Lucia, about 1000 ft. 



..,,.< r ■ Codltert. The trunk ritet to the height of 120 ft. ; Is very slender, not exceed. 



erence; a, d ai straight as an arrow. The upper third of the tree is clothed with 



arana of an elongated pyramid The branches are spreading s the lower 



