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about that of the Common European Spruce. A plant at 
Dropmore in England, in 10 years had attained 19 feet, 
and bore several cones. 
This species was originally discovered by Mr. Menzies 
at Nootka Sound, in 1797, during the voyage of Captain 
Vancouver, and from a specimen without cones or flowers 
was published a description by Mr. Lambert, under the 
name of Pinus taxifolia , which forms, however, a distinct 
variety by the greater length of its leaves. It continues 
along the north-west coast from the latitude of 43° to 52°, 
and constitutes the principal part of all the gloomy forests 
of this region, extending into the valleys of the Rocky 
Mountains, eastward to the upper waters of the Platte, the 
Blue Mountains of Oregon, and we found it in Thornberg’s 
high alpine ravine, and on the lofty hills of Bear River, of 
Timpanagos, reduced to an elegant spreading tree of 40 or 
50 feet elevation. 
Plate CXV. 
A branch of the natural size with the cone. 
MENZIES’S SPRUCE FIR. 
ABIES Meintziesii, ramis verrucosis , foliis planis acutis brevibus un- 
dique versis subtus argenteis , strobilis cylindraceis , squamis scariosis 
cuneato-ovalibus parvulis margine laceris , bracteolis brevibus integris 
acuminatis. 
Pinus Menziesii . Lambert, Pines, vol. 3, tab. 89. Loudon, Arbor. 4, 
p. 2321, t. 2232. 
