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PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
of the under face [fig. 7]; for the most part disposed distichally on the older branchlets, but on the younger 
ones also growing plentifully along their upper side, and more sparingly along the under side. 
Male catkins growing from the lateral and under sides of the branchlets [see fig. 8], usually numerous; 
bright reddish fawn-coloured, short, obtusely conical [fig. 9 and fig. 10, the same magnified], springing from 
a deep collar of numerous rich raw-sienna coloured scales, of the same form as 
those enveloping the buds, and longer than the rest of the catkins. The 
scales at the base [fig. 11 ] are smaller and narrower, and more pointed than 
the others, which are very broad, transverse, and concave [fig. 12]. The 
stamens are short, have a peaked crest (not unlike that of Picea nobilis), and 
are spread like a hood on the anthers which burst below them. Figs. 13 and 
14 represent the stamen in the young state, and figs. 15 and 16 after the 
anthers have burst. The cones (see plate) are pendent; Sabine supposed 
Fig- 5 - 
Fig. 6. 
Fig 7 - 
that they were erect. This was 
only half an error, for they are erect 
in their first growth, but afterwards 
they become pendent; they are ter¬ 
minal at first, but young shoots 
often spring up alongside of them 
before they have fallen, making them 
not entirely terminal. They are 
fringed with a collar of long scales 
like the male catkins, and are ovate, 
oblong, pale green at first, afterwards bright brown, with the bracts of the scales exserted. Scales Lfigs. 17 
and 18, outer and inner view] not numerous, persistent, very concave, 
coriaceous, ovate rounded, sometimes with the margin more or less 
sinuate; margin entire. Bracts [fig. 19 shews one laid back from 
the scale] long, linear, tricuspidate; the middle one longest, cartila¬ 
ginous projecting forwards. Nuttal has figured them as reflexed, 
at the apex but they are never so when growing. Some of them 
may occasionally be seen reflexed in herbarium specimens, but this is 
Fig. 8. Male Catkins. 
Fig. 9. 
F'ig. 10. 
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Fig. 12. 
owing to accidental displacement in drying. Seeds and wing rather 
short [figs. 20 and 21]. Wing not twice as long as the seed, obtusely 
semi-elliptic, back straight, pale chestnut brown. Seeds brown, lying 
on the substance of the wing, which is continued under it. Flg - I3 - Flg - I4 - 
This species, as it grows in the coast regions of North-West America, is one of the grandest of the group 
of giants which are found in the forests of that 
country. Dr Cooper (“ United States Pacific Rail¬ 
road Reports,” xii. 2, p. 24) says that its trunk is 
straight, commonly without branches for 50 feet or 
/ \ more, and it reaches a height little short of 300 feet. 
\J 1 J Dr Newberry saw several individuals of it which had 
Fig- 21. a diameter of 10 feet at 4 feet from the ground, and 
an altitude of 300. And Dr Lyell ( Proc . Linn. Soc., 
vii., p. 133) says that several specimens which he measured in the neighbourhood of Sumass, in British 
Columbia, were nearly 30 feet in circumference at 5 feet from the ground; 250 feet was the measured length 
of one that had been blown down; but some which he saw must (he says) have been considerably higher 
than this. 
Dr Lindley (“ Penny Cyclopaedia,” i., p. 32) mentions (probably on the authority of Douglas) that when he 
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