PICEA 
N OB I LI S, 
Lind ley. 
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Identification. —ABIES NOBILIS, Lindley, in Penny Cyclop., i. (1833); Forbes, Pinet. Woburn., p. 115 (1839); Link, in Linntza , xv. p. 532 
(1841); Spach, Hijl. Nat. Vlg. Phaner., xi. p. 419 (1842). 
PINUS NOBILIS, Douglas, in Bot. Mag. Comp., ii. p. 147 (1836) ; Lambert, Genus Pinus , ed. 2, iii. p. 167 (1837-38) ; Antoine, 
Conif., p. 77 (1840-46); Hooker, Flor. Bor. Amer., ii. p. 162 (1840); Lawfon, Abietince , p. 12 (1851). 
PICEA NOBILIS, Loudon, Arboretum, iv. p. 2342 (1838); Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 1047 (1842); Nuttall, Sylva, iii. 
p. 136 (1842); Endlicher, Syn. Conif., p. 90 (1847); Knight, Syn. Conif., p. 39 (1850); Lindley and Gordon, Journ. Plort. 
Soc., v. p. 209 (1850); Carriere, Traite Gin. des Conif., p. 198 (1855); Newberry, in U. S. Pacif. Rail. Rep., vi. p. 49 
(1857) ; Gordon, Pinetum, p. 149 (1858) ; and Supplement, p. 48 (1862). 
TUCK-TUCK, in the Columbian-Indian language. t 
Engravings. — Cones, Leaves, &c. —Antoine, Conif., t. 29, fig. 2 ; Forbes, Pinet. Woburn., t. 40 ; Loudon, Arborehim, iv., figs. 2249, 2250 ; Nuttall, 
Sylva, iii. t. 117 ; Newberry, U. S. Pacif. Rail. Rep. (utfupra), vi. t. 50, fig. 17. 
Specific Character.- —P. foliis petiolatis (petiolis cylinclricis bafi incraffatis) abbreviatis linearibus fub- 
falcatis obtufis mucronatis planis et fupra et fubtus albido pulvinatis, pulvinis decurrentibus rhombeis 
haud confpicuis, ftrobilis cylindricis fat latis eredtis, bradteis exfertis late fpathulatis erofo-laceris lacinia 
intermedia longiore acuta retrorfum imbricatis, fquamis a rachi perfiftente folutis late cuneatis ftipitatis 
pubefcentibus margine incurvato integerrimo. 
Habitat in Oregon et California. 
A tree growing from 80 to 200 feet high. Branches round, rather thick, clofely crowded with leaves, 
moftly on the upper part of the branch. Leaves fhort, rigid, curved upwards, linear, fomewhat narrowed 
towards the bafe, fubfalcate, with the apex obtufe and fhortly mucronate, with a raised line in the middle and 
a furrow on each side of it above, and canaliculate below, except towards the apex, where the middle line is 
raised, variable in fize, from \ inch to ij inch in length, and from about half a line to a line in breadth : 
above [fig. 1 ] with three or four irregular rows of ftomata in the furrows on each fide of the median line, 
and one or two rows of fmaller ftomata next the margin ; below [fig. 2] ufually with five interrupted 
rows of ftomata on each fide, the rows often increafing in number as they approach the point of 
the leaf; the leaf, except on the leading fhoot, is turned on its axis immediately above its infertion 
in the bark. The odour of the cut twig is diftindt, fomewhat terebinthine, aromatic, and pleading. Bark 
fmooth, afh-grey. Buds fhort and fubglobofe, leading {hoot ufually with one bud in the centre, and three to 
five fmaller ones around it. The male catkins grow on the under fide of the branches, fpringing out of the 
axillae of the previous year’s fhoots ; each catkin [fig. 3] is independent, cylindrical, feffile, long, narrow; 
when mature fomewhat flaccid, furrounded at the bafe by imbricated fcales, which have their margins 
laciniated. Stamens numerous [figs. 4, 5, 6], with a turbinated purple head, and a thick fhort ftalk; 
anthers bilocular, opening on the fides, at firft by a tranfverfe flit on each fide, which gradually extends 
acrofs the whole; the head is then thrown back and the axis lengthened, fo that both anthers foon prefent 
the appearance of one long, concave hollow, with a narrow longitudinal feptum in the middle, and cup- 
fhaped both at top and bottom. Cones feffile, eredl, cylindrical, thick; bafe and apex very obtufe, and of 
[ 1 ] a equal 
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