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Douglasii, particularly in that stage of its growth where 
the bracteoles are reflected. 
Plants of this species are also living in the vicinity of 
London. 
Plate CXVII. 
A branch with fruit, a. The leaf. b. The bracte. 
LEAFY-CONED SILVER FIR. 
ABIES bracteata, foliis bifariam patentibus mucronatis planis subtus 
argenteisj strobilis cwatis erectis squamis reniformibus , bracteolis tri- 
lobis , lacinia intermedia longissima foliacea recurvata . 
Pinus bracteata . D. Don, in Lin. Transact, vol. 17, p. 443. Lambert’s 
Pines, vol. 3, tab. 91. Loudon, Arboret. 4, p. 2348, fig. 2256. 
Pinus venusta . Douglas, in Compan. to Botan. Magaz. 2, p. 152. 
This curious and interesting species of Fir, was it seems, 
discovered by Douglas, in March 1832, on the high moun- 
tains of the Oregon. Dr. Coulter, from whose specimens it 
was described by D. Don, found it in latitude 36° on the 
sea-side mountain range of Santa Lucia, about 1000 feet 
lower down than the situation of the Pinus coulteri. Ac- 
cording to this gentleman, the nearly naked, slender trunk, 
rises to the height of 120 feet, as straight as an arrow, and 
not exceeding 2 feet in circumference. The upper third of 
the tree is clothed with branches, giving it the appearance 
of an elongated pyramid. The branches are spreading, 
and the lower ones decumbent. The bractes are long and 
recurved, and but little changed from the character of ordi- 
nary leaves which gives the cones a very peculiar and sin- 
