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gular appearance. It is only the middle branches that 
produce cones when on the tree, being in great clusters, 
and seen at a great elevation, the cones strikingly resemble 
the Banksia’s in their inflorescence. 
The leaves are crowded, but in 2 rows, linear mucronate, 
flat and rigid, 2 to 3 inches long, one line broad, light- 
green and shining above, silvery beneath. Cones on adult 
branches only, single, lateral, almost sessile, erect, ovate, 
and turgid, 4 inches long and 2 inches in diameter, scaly 
at the base. Scales of the cone kidney-shaped, roundish, 
concave, stalked, thick and indurated, pale-brown, incurved 
on the margin, crenulate and externally glaucous. The 
bracteoles wedge-shape, coriaceous and rigid, of the same 
colour as the scales but shorter, 3-lobed at the summit, the 
lateral lobes short, roundish and irregularly dentate, the 
middle segment recurved, an inch and a half long, and 
resembling a true leaf in every respect, but only half their 
breadth. 
This singular tree is not yet introduced into Europe. 
Plate CXVIII. 
A twig with the cone reduced, a. The leaf. b. The bracte. 
DOWNY-CONED SILVER FIR. 
ABIES lasiocaepa, foliis obtusis pralongis concoloribus, strobilis ? 
squamis latis subrotundatis extus dense fusco-pubescentibus, bracteolis 
late obovatis vix denticulatis squama subduplo-brevioribus apice mucro- 
nato-acuminatis. 
Pinus (abies) lasiocarpa. Hooker, Flor. Bor. Amer. 2, p. 163. 
