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bush whicli seems to differ from C, pedunciilata principally in the 

 globuhar berry-like seeds, unlike anything yet described in the 

 genus. The shoots, moreover, have a brownish chestnut colour- 

 As the foliage is so like that of C. pedunculata, I have preferred 

 to consider it as a variety of that species. It is very probable 

 that this is the female plant above referred to which Fortune 



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met with on his second journey (Gard. Cliron. 1863, p. 1134), 

 and which appeared to him to be '' new to science." Be this as 

 it may, Mr. Goring obtained both trees— pedimculata true, and 

 the j)rescnt one {pedimculata^ var. spTia^ralis) — from a nursery at 

 Bagshot in 1865 or 1866, under the name of C. Fortunei ; but 

 certainly neither of them seems entitled to that appellation. It 

 should be stated that the globular form is much less apparent in 

 the dried specimens. 



The new variety, of which an illustration is appended, may 

 be thus characterized : 



Var. SPH^EALTS, nov. var. ramis pallida castaneis ; novellis 

 viridibus glabris ; foliis l|-2 pollic. lincari-falcatis sensim acumi- 

 natisj planis vel leviter arcuatis ; geminarum terminalium squamis 

 oblongis acutis, baud acuminatis, amentis masculis .... pedun- 

 culis seminiferis versus basin ramulorum aggregatis \ poll. 

 long, seminibus drupaceis sphaericisparumbrevioribus. Ex hort. 

 Goring. (Plate VIT.) 



Picea Omorika, Panic (Plate VIII.) 



Picea Omorika, Faiicic^ C, Holle^ Hlonatsh. des Vereines zur 



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1877; Seichenhach m Botanische 



Zeitiing, 1877 ; Gard. Chron. April 14, 1S77, p. 470, et May 19, 

 1877, p. 620, March 8, 1884, p. 308; AscJierson, Sitzh. der 

 Gesells- Naturfreunde zu Berlin^ 1881 ; Boissier, Flora Oriot- 

 talisj V- p. 701, sub P. orientali obiter. 



"Arbor excelsa, comaanguste pyramidali; ramis brevibus sub- 

 verticillatis, superioribus erectig, mediis horlzontaliter patentibus 

 ac inferioribus pendulis cum apicibus arcuatim adscendentibus ; 

 ramulis hirsutis ; foliis solitariis,-rectis aut incurvis planiusculis, 

 nervo utrinque prominulo, obsolete tetragonis apice acuminatis 

 acutis aut obtusis cum apiculo cartilagineo, superiore pagina 

 eximie glaucis ; strobilis sat parvis oblongis in ramis varise longi- 

 tudinis erectis, horizontaliter patentibus aut pendulis ; squamis a 

 basi cuueata subrotundis, dorso sub apice striatis margine eroso- 

 denticulatis ; bracteis obovato-cuneatis apice denticulatis, sua 

 squama multo brevioribus ; nuculis parvis obovatis ala obovata- 



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