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as having “pendulous, squarrose, cylindrical cones,” which, with its quinate leaves, “assimi¬ 
late it to P. strobus;” hut “the seed, large and eatable, leaves not serrulate and stouter. 
Dr. James, on the contrary, says his P.Jlexilis has, like P. strobus, leaves, 5 in a fascicle, hut 
beyond that there is little resemblance. “ The leaves are short and rigid, the sheaths short 
and lacerated, the strobiles eree£, composed of large unarmed scales, being somewhat smaller 
than those of P. rigida, hut similar in shape, and exuding a great quantity of resin,” &c. 
His description of the tree agrees well with that of the species under consideration, except that 
he does not mention the white hark. The flexible branches and short leaves confined to the 
extremities of the branches of P.Jlexilis are characters shared by most of the five-leaved pines, 
which form a group by themselves, and should perhaps constitute a sub-genus. The red , 
oblique-based resinless cones of our trees seem clearly to distinguish it. 
The wood of P.Jlexilis is white and soft, and not highly charged with resin, resembling that 
of P. strobus and P. Lambertiana. 
Picea g-randis, Dougl. (Plate YI.) The western balsam fir. 
P. grandis, Loudon , Arboret,p . 2341, Jigs. 2245, 2246. 
Pinus grandis, Dougl. ms. 
Abies grandis, Lindl. Penny Cyclop. No. 3. 
A. grandis, Hook. Flor., Bor. Arner. 2, p>. 163. 
A. grandis, Nutt. Sylva. 3. 
Fig. 16. 
Fig. 16. Cone, leaves, scales, and seed of P. grandis, natural size. 
