P I C E A BRACTEAT A.
IDENTIFICATION.—PINUS BRACTEATA, Lambert, Genus Pious (2d ED.), iii. p. 169(1832); Antoinc, Conif. p. 17(1840-46); Endlicher,
Syn. Conif., p. 89 (1847); Don, in Linn. Trans., xvii. p. 443.
PINUS VENUSTA, Douglas, in Bot. Mag. Comp., ii. p. 152 (1836).
PICEA BRACTEATA, Loudon, Arboretum, iv. p. 2348 (183S); Loudon, Eneyel. of Trees, p. 1048 (1842).
ABIES BRACTEATA, Hooker and Arnott, in Beeehey, p. 394 (1S41); Hartweg, in Journ. Hort. Soc.. iii. p. 225 (1848) ,
Lindley and Gordon, Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 209 (1S50); Bot. Mag., lxxiv. (3d Series) p. 4740 (1853); Gardeners' Chronicle,
July 9, p. 435 (1S53); Ch. Lem. Illust. p. 5 (1854); Rivuc Hort., p. 31 (1854); Flore des Serres, ix. p. 899 , Murray, in
Edin. New Phil. Jour. (New Series), x. p. 1 (1859), and Trans. Edin. Botan. Soc., vi. p. 211 (1859).
ENGRAVINGS.—Cones, Leaves, &c.—Lambert, Genus Pinus (toe. cit.), t. 175; Antoine, Conif. (toe. at.), t. 30; Loudon, Arboretum (be. cit.),
fig. 2256; Loudon, Encycl. of Trees (loc. cit.), fig. 1964; Hooker and Arnott, in Beeehey (toe. cit), t. 379; Rot. Mag.
Comp. (loc. cit.), t. 4740; Ch. Lem. Illust., p. 5 (1854); Flore des Serres (loc. cit.); Murray (loc. cit)
Trees.—Murray (loc. cit.)
Specific Character.—A. foliis fub-diftichis lincaribus planis mucronatis fubtus argenteis ; (trobilis ovatis
eredtis, bra£tcis exfertis cuneato-linearibus bilobis lobis erofis nervo in cufpidem linearem fquama multotics
longiorem producto, fquamis e bafi cuneata reniformi-orbicularibus.
Habitat in California meridionali.
Branches :
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reading or decumbent; leaves [figs. 1 and 2] inferted on all fides, but fj:
diftichous manner, about two inches long, very ftrong and rigid,
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linear, fomewhat curved, acute, twifled at the bafe [fig. 3], dark
green with a deprefled line above, white and filvery beneath; ftomata
only on the under fide, arranged in about twelve rows, as fhewn in
fig. 4. Bark fmooth, without pulvini; phyllula; tranfverfely orbicular.
Young leaf-buds oval, and clothed with imbricated fcales. Cones
terminal, broad, oval, folitary, growing erect, from three to four
inches long, exclufive of the braCts, and about two inches in diameter;
fcales imbricated, fomewhat unguiculate, entire,
obtufe; bracts [fig. 5] obcordate, terminating in a long
rigid linear fubulate recurved leaf-like fpine [fig. 6] two
inches long, including the bafe. Seeds [fig. 7] with a
broad cuneate and fomewhat oblique wing. Mr Don
fates that it is only the middle branches which bear
cones, while Hooker, in his defcription in the " Botanical
Magazine," fays they grow " on a very (hort lateral
branch," a difcrepancy which perhaps may be reconciled
by fuppofing that they grow only on thofe fiiort
lateral branches which proceed directly from the middle
branches.
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