THE GREAT SILVER FIR. 
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Oahu, one of the Sandwich islands. It also grew in the 
pine woods of Wappatoo island, in both which places it 
was frequently about 240 feet in height. The wood was 
found to be soft, white, and coarse-grained, yet very well 
suited for flooring and other purposes when better timber 
could not be had. This tree mostly presents a tall naked 
shaft of a 100 or more feet in height, when it commences 
to branch with a high spreading pyramidal summit; the 
bark is smooth and brownish, the leaves pectinate and 
spreading, in about 2 rows, linear, roundish at the point, 
and often notched, green above and silvery beneath, some- 
what dilated towards the apex, and about an inch long. 
The cones lateral, single, cylindrical and obtuse, something 
like those of A. ccdrus (the Cedar of Lebanon,) about 3J 
inches long and 2 inches broad, of a brown colour ; the 
scales transverse, very broad, deciduous, and quite entire. 
Bracteoles ovate-acuminate, irregularly notched along the 
margin, and much shorter than the scales. 
The Firms amabilis of Douglas, is probably a mere 
variety of the present. Loudon gives two figures from 
Douglas’s specimens in the Herbarium of the London Hor- 
ticultural Society, (2247 and 2248.) The cone is, how- 
ever, said to be twice as large as that of specimens of A. 
grandis sent home by Douglas, namely, 6 inches long and 
2J broad, the leaves are likewise entire, instead of being 
notched. In other respects no difference is visible. 
Young plants are growing in the Society’s garden at Chis- 
wick. 
