PICEA NOBILIS. 
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cinnamon-coloured. The timber is foft and white. Considerable variations occur in certain parts, more 
particularly in the proportions of the bradts of the Scales. The prolonged point is Sometimes longer than 
in others, which has led Some to imagine that there may be more than one Species included under 
the general name of P. nobilis . Dr Newberry Seems to lean to this view. He Slates that his observations 
did not fully accord with thofe which have been published in regard to it; and that the Specimens which he 
brought home differed So much from thofe before obtained from the fame region and from each other, that 
he thought it neceffary to point out thefe differences. He gives figures of the cone, Scales, feeds, and leaf, 
taken from fpecimens obtained from a young tree in the Cafcade Mountains, 150 miles fouth of the 
Columbia, for which he claims the merit of perfedt accuracy. The following figures Shew the different 
forms of the bradt, fo far as our information yet goes: 
Fig. 10. 
Copied from Loudon. 
Fig. 9. 
Fig. 14. Fig. 15. 
Copied from Newberry. 
Fig. 11. 
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Fig. 12. 
Copied from Lambert. 
Fig- i3- 
Copied from Nuttall. 
Fig. 16. 
Fig. 17. 
From Specimens from Shasta. 
Fig. 18. 
From home-grown Cones. 
Figs. 9 and io are copied from Loudon, and may be viewed, as Dr Newberry fuppofes, as being only intended to convey the general effefib 
The ragged margin of the fcale does not exift. 
Figs. 11 and 12 are taken from Lambert. 
Fig. 13 ,, Nuttall, whofe figure of the cone is very charafileriftic, fo far as general effeFt goes. 
Figs. 14 and 15 „ Dr Newberry. 
Figs. 16 and 17 „ our own fpecimens, collected by Mr W. Murray and by Mr Jeffrey at Shafta Valley and Scots Mountain. 
Fig. 18 ,, home-grown cones. 
In relation to this point, Dr Newberry fays: “ A large cone was brought to me from the bafe of Mount 
Hood, by Mr C. D. Anderfon, which I could refer to no tree but this ; and yet the bradts, though fimilar 
in form to thofe of the cone now figured [fig. 14], were much smaller, covering only a very frnall portion of 
the furface of the cone ; and the charadteriftic appearance of the cone of P. nobilis was entirely loft. The 
leaves, fcales, feeds, and wings, however, were fimilar to thofe figured.” Loudon, again, in his defcription, 
drawn from Douglas’s fpecimen, reprefents the leaves as diftichal and trigonal, with a longitudinal furrow. 
In the tree introduced into this country, as well as in Dr Newberry’s fpecimens, the leaves are in many 
rows, fo thickly fet on all Tides of the branches, except on the under fide, where they are lefs crowded, that 
their bafes are feparated by fpaces no larger than thofe they occupy ; but the clofenefs of the leaves is a 
point in which great variation occurs, probably depending upon the health and age of the plant. As in 
moft other coniferous trees alfo, there is confiderable variation in the colour of the foliage, fome individuals 
being more glaucous than others—fo much fo, that one variety is known by the name of P. nobilis glauca. 
This arifes from the greater or lefs number of ftomata on the furface of the leaves. One variety has the 
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