The pinetum : being a synopsis of all the coniferous plants at present known, with descriptions, history and synonyms, and a comprehensive systematic index / by George Gordon.

  • George Gordon
Date:
1875
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Credit: The pinetum : being a synopsis of all the coniferous plants at present known, with descriptions, history and synonyms, and a comprehensive systematic index / by George Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quarters of an inch long, and soon falling oft’ after the first season, leaving the branches very naked, warted, and with a jointed appearance. Buds ovate-pointed and covered with resin. Cones 3 inches long and I to inch broad, pendulous, cylindrical, blunt-pointed, and with the scales loose, and not compact. Sciiles elliptical, three-quarters of an inch long, and having a .shrivelled, brown appearance, with the margin thin, very irregularly toothed or bitten. Bracteas .small, and hidden by the scjile.s. Seeds very small and winged. A tall tree, growing GO or 70 feet high, with a pyramidal, thickly-branched head, and silvery appearance. Timber of excellent quality. It is found abundantly in Northern California, and on the island of Sitoha, also growing in the Shasta country, in rather moist situations along the banks of rivera, in deep alluvial soil 100 feet high. Abies Menziesii crisp.v, Antoine. This variety only diftfera from the species, in liaving the margins of the .scales, on the cones, more undulated or some- what jagged, and more extended. No. 7. Abirs nigr.\, Michaux, the Black Spruce Fir. Syn. Abies Mariana, Miller. „ „ denticulata, Foiref. „ Picea nigra, Link. „ Pinus nigra, Alton. „ „ ^Mariana, Du Roi. „ „ Marylandica, Booth. Leaves solitary, regularly spreading all round the branches, and somewhat four-sided, very short and stiff, of a sombre dark green, half an inch long, thickly set and erect. Branches hori- zontal, or very slightly drooping at the ends. Cones ]>endulous, egg-shapod from H to 1| inch long, and nearly three-quartci's of an inch bi-oad, deep purple when young, but when ripe of a