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gnawed, imbri-cated backwards(Don in Lamb.Pin.) LeavesIf in. long.Cone 6 Jin. long,sessile ; 2f in.broad. Scale

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it was discover-ed by Douglas,and introducedin 1831.

Description , fyc.

A large tree, withcinnamon colour-ed bark. Leavescrowded, 2-rowed,linear, falcate, forthe most partacute, compressedtrigonal; flat a-bove, marked witha depressed line;silvery beneath ;scarcely 1 in. long.

Cones solitary, la-teral, cylindrical,

thick; brownish; 6—7 in. long, and 8—9 in. in circumference : scaleslamelli-form, stipulate, copiously covered with minute down; incurved and quiteentire on the margin. Bracteoles much ex-serted, spathulate, adpressed backwards, im-bricated ; laminae dilated, membranaceous ;points elongated, awl-shaped, rigid. Seedsoblong, with a coriaceous testa: wing broad, feSR-iSr Mlaxe-shaped, thinly membranaceous, pale-co-loured ; nearly allied to P. Fraseri, but withcones five times as large. ( Lamb .) Accordingto Douglas ( Comp.Bot . Mag., ii. p. 147.), thisis a majestic tree, forming vast forests upon themountains of Northern California, and produc-ing timber of excellent quality. “ I spent threeweeks in a forest composed of this tree,” he says, “ and, day by day, couldnot cease to admire it.” The plant in the Horticultural Society’s Garden

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