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.TIO.V.—ABIES NOBILIS, Lindley, in Penny Cyclop., i. (1833) ; Forbes, Plnet. Woburn., p. 115 (1839) ; Link, in Linncea, xv. p, 532
(1841); Spach, Hifi. Nat. Vig. Plumer., xi. p. 419 (1842).
PINUS NOBILIS. Douglas, in Bot. Mag. Co,„p., ii. p. 147 (1836) ; Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. 2, iii. p. 167 (1837-38) ; Antoine,
Conif., p. 77 (1840-46) ; Hooker, Flor. Bor. Amer., ii. p. 162 (1840) ; Lawfon, Abicliiue, p. 12 (1851).
PICEA NOBILIS, Loudon, Arboretum, iv. p. 2342 (1838); Loudon, Eiicycl. of Trees, p. 1047 (1842); Nuttall, Sylva, iii.
p. 136 (1842); Endlicher, Syn. Conif, p. 90 (1847) ; Knight, Syn. Conif. p. 39 (1850) ; I.intllcy and Gordon, Journ. Hon.
Soc., v. p. 209 (1850); Carrière, Traité Gin. îles Conif, p. 198 (1855); Newberry, in U. S. Pacif. Rail. Rep., vi. p. 49
(1857); Gordon, Pinetum, p. 149 (1858) ; and Supplement, p. 48 (1862).
TUCK-TUCK, in the Columbian-Indian language.
iS.—Cones, Leaves, &c.—Antoine, Conif, t. 29, fig. 2 ; Forbes, Pinet. Woburn., t. 40 : Loudon, Arboretum, iv., figs. 2249, 2250 ; Nuttall,
Sylva, iii. t. 117; Newberry, U. S. Pacif. Rail. Rep. (ulfupra), vi. t. 50, fig. 17.
Specific Char after.—P. foliis petiolatis (petiolis cylindricis bafi incraffatis) abbreviatis linearibus fubfalcatis
obtufis mucronatis planis et fupra et fubtus albido puLvinatis, pulvinis dccurrentibus rhombeis
haud confpicuis, flrobilis cylindricis fat latis ereCtis, bracteis exfertis late fpathulatis erofo-laceris lacinia
intermedia longiore acuta retrorfum imbricatis, fquamis a rachi perfiflente folutis late cuneatis ftipitatis
pubefcentibus margine incurvato integerrimo.
Habitat in Oregon et California.
A tree growing from 80 to 200 feet high. Branches round, rather thick, clofely crowded with leaves,
moftly on the upper part of the branch. Leaves fhort, rigid, curved upwards, linear, fomewhat narrowed
towards the bafe, fubfalcate, with the apex obtufe and fhort ly mucronate, with a raised line in the middle and
a furrow on each side of it above, and canaliculate below, except towards the apex, where the middle line is
raised, variable in fize, from ! inch to i| inch in length, and from about half a line to a line in breadth:
above [fig. 1 ] with three or four irregular rows of ftomata in the furrows on each fide of the median line,
and one or two rows of fmaller ftomata next the margin ; below [fig. 2] ufually with five interrupted
rows of ftomata on each fide, the rows often increafing in number as they approach the point of
the leaf; the leaf, except on the leading flioot, is turned on its axis immediately above its infertion
in the bark. The odour of the cut twig is diftinCt, fomewhat terebinthine, aromatic, and pleafing. Bark
fmooth, afh-grey. Buds fhort and fubglobofe, leading flioot ufually with one bud in the centre, and three to
five fmaller ones around it. The male catkins grow on the under fide of the branches, fpringing out of the
axillae of the previous year's {hoots; each catkin [fig. 3] is independent, cylindrical, feffile, long, narrow;
when mature fomewhat flaccid, furrounded at the bafe by imbricated fcales, which have their margins
laciniated. Stamens numerous [figs. 4, 5, 6], with a turbinated purple head, and a thick fhort ftalk;
anthers bilocular, opening on the fides, at firft by a tranfverfe flit on each fide, which gradually extends
acrofs the whole; the head is then thrown back and the axis lengthened, fo that both anthers foon prefent
the appearance of one long, concave hollow, with a narrow longitudinal feptum in the middle, and cupfhaped
both at top and bottom. Cones feffile, erect, cylindrical, thick; bafe and apex very obtufe, and of
[ 1 ] a equal