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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART JII.

Jiot. Mag.y ii. p. 147.) A native of northern California , in low moist valleyswhere it attains the height of 200 ft. The wood is soft, white, and of inferiorquality, like P. religiosa, to which, according to Professor Don, it is nearlyrelated. It resembles the cedar of Lebanon in the form and structure of itscones, which are three times the length of the leaves; with ovate-acuminatebracteas, much shorter than the scales. (I). Don.) The plant in the Horti-cultural Society’s Garden was, in 1837, 1 ft. high.

t 6 . P. ama'bilis Doug. The lovely Silver Fir .

Synonyme . Plnus am&bilis Douglas MS.

Engravings. Our figs. 2247, 2248., from Douglas’s specimens in the herbarium of the Hort. Soc.Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves flat,obtuse, entire. Cones cy-lindrical; bracteoles veryshort, pointed. Scale tri-angular; the upper marginrounded, entire. Leaves,on Douglas’s specimen,

Ii in. long, and on theyoung plant in the Hor-ticultural Society’s Gar-den,Ain. long. Cones6in.long, and in. broad.

Scales, 1J in. broad, andabout ljin. long. Seed,

with the wing, 1 in. long;wing f-in. broad. Thecone in Douglas’s speci-men is about twice as largeas those sent home by himof P. grandis, and theleaves are entire insteadof being emarginate; but,in other respects, we havebeen quite unable to dis-cover any difference, eitherbetween the dried speci-mens, or the young plants,worthy of being consi-dered specific. The cones were sent home by Douglas in 1831, withoutany further information than the name. As there are young plants in theChiswick Garden, all that is here said must be considered as provisional,till these plants have shown some characteristic features by which theymay be either distinguished from, or associated with, other species.

f 7. P. no'hilis Dougl. The noble, or large-bractcd, Silver Fir.

Synonymcs. Pious nobilis Doug. MS., Lamb. Pin., 2., last fig.; A. ndbilis Lindt, in PennyEngravings. Lamb. Pin. Icon.; and our Jigs. 2249. and 2250., from Douglas’s specimens in tneherbarium of the Horticultural Society.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves mostly on one side of the branches, falcate, short,acute, silvery beneath. Cones cylindrical; bracteoles elongated, spathulate,