PICEA BRACTEATA 
Identification. —PINUS BRACTEATA, Lambert, Genus Pinus (2d eel), iii. p. 169(1832); Antoine, Conif. , p. 17(1840-46); Endlicher, 
Syn. Conif., p. 89 (1847 )> Don, in Linn. Trans., xvii. p. 443. 
PINUS VENUSTA, Douglas, in Bot. Mag. Comp., ii. p. 152 (1836). 
PICEA BRACTEATA, Loudon, Arboretum, iv. p. 234.8 (1838); Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 1048 (1842). 
ABIES BRACTEATA, Hooker and Arnott, in Beechey, p. 394 (1841); Hartweg, in Journ. Hort. Soc., iii. p. 225 (1848) ; 
Lindley and Gordon, Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 209 (1850); Bot. Mag., lxxiv. (3d Series)p. 4740 (1853); Gardeners Chronicle, 
July 9, p. 435 (1853); Ch. Lem. Illust. p. 5 (1854); Revue Hort., p. 31 (1854); Flore des Serres, ix. p. 899; Murray, in 
Edin. New Phil. Jour. (New Series), x. p. 1 (1859), and Trans. Edin. Botan. Soc., vi. p. 211 (1859). 
Engravings. — Cones, Leaves, cfc. —Lambert, Genus Pinus {loc. cit.), t. 175; Antoine, Conif. {loc. cit.), t. 30; Loudon, Arboretum foe. cit), 
fig. 2256; Loudon, Encycl. of Trees (loc. cit.), fig. 1964; Hooker and Arnott, in Beechey (loc. cit.), t. 379 ; Bot. Mag. 
Conip. (loc. cit.), t. 4740; Ch. Lem. Lllust., p. 5 (1854); Flore des Serres {loc. cit)-, Murray {loc. cit) 
Trees. —Murray {loc. cit) 
Specific Character. —A. foliis fub-diftichis linearibus planis mucronatis fubtus argenteis ; ftrobilis ovatis 
eredfis, bradteis exfertis cuneato-linearibus bilobis lobis erofis nervo in cufpidem linearem fquama multoties 
longiorem produdto, fquamis e bafi cuneata reniformi-orbicularibus. 
Habitat in California meridionali. 
Fig. 1. 
Fig- 3 - 
Branches fpreading or decumbent; leaves [figs. 1 and 2] inferted on all fides, but fpreading in a 
diftichous manner, about two inches long, very ftrong and rigid, 
linear, fomewhat curved, acute, twifted at the bafe [fig. 3], dark 
green with a depreffed line above, white and filvery beneath; ftomata 
only on the under fide, arranged in about twelve rows, as fhewn in 
fig. 4. Bark fmooth, without pulvini; phyllulse tranfverfely orbicular. 
Young leaf-buds oval, and clothed with imbricated feales. Cones 
terminal, broad, oval, folitary, growing eredf, from three to four 
inches long, exclufive of the bradts, and about two inches in dia¬ 
meter; feales imbricated, fomewhat unguiculate, entire, 
obtufe; bradts [fig. 5] obcordate, terminating in a long 
rigid linear fubulate recurved leaf-like fpine [fig. 6] two 
inches long, including the bafe. Seeds [fig. 7] with a 
broad cuneate and fomewhat oblique wing. Mr Don 
ftates that it is only the middle branches which bear 
cones, while Hooker, in his defeription in the “ Botanical 
Magazine,” fays they grow “ on a very fhort lateral 
branch,” a difcrepancy which perhaps may be recon¬ 
ciled by fuppofing that they grow only on thofe fhort 
lateral branches which proceed diredtly from the middle 
branches. 
Fig. 6. 
Fig. 7. 
Fig. 2. 
Fig. 4- 
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Defeription. 
