of those of Abies Webbiana, or the red of some of the young 
larch cones, and it will be allowed that it has many attractions. — 
I am indebted to my friend Dr. Masters for the identifi- 
cation of this species (confirmed by M. de Maximovicz), 
which, as he clearly points out, has been confused with P. 
Alcockiana, a plant differing wholly in habit, in the leaves 
inserted all round the branches, in their square form and 
indistinctly glaucous uppersurface, and in the resin canals 
not being (as they should have been represented in fig. 3) 
close to the epidermis of the leaf. It has further been 
confused with P. Menziesii, which extends from British 
Columbia to California, and which has been referred to P. 
sitchensis, a native of Alaska, but this has more square 
and needle-pointed leaves. ‘There is, however, in Bentham’s 
Herbarium a spruce from that far northern region, col- 
lected by Hinds in 1841. which is more likely to be P.— 
ajanensis, and which, as Dr. Masters has indicated in the 
Herbarium, differs from P. Menziesii in the flatter, less 
deeply keeled and less acute leaves. It has the seeds of 
A. ajanensis and its small included bracts, but the cones | : 
are twice as large. 
There are still doubts as to the synonymy of P. ajanensis. 
Gordon’s Pinetum probably includes it both under this 
name and that of Alcoquiana, and there is hopeless con- | x 
fusion in Franchat and Savat’s “Flora of Japan.” Then 
again, Maximovicz (in Herb.) refers to it P. microsperma, 
Lindl., of which Masters has made a variety (P. ajanensis, 
var. microsperma). Lastly, Maximovicz includes under it, 
and no doubt rightly, Lindley’s Veitchia japonica, a genus 
_ founded on the abnormal structure of the buds, which being : 
altered by the puncture of probably Adelges abietis or an 
allied insect, have (as in the case of Conifers with us) as- ee 
sumed the form of cones. re 
P. ajanensis has a considerable range; commencing in © 
lat. 50° in the valley of the Amoor, it is continued south- 
ward and eastward to its mouth, on the mountains. Thence 
it crosses to Japan,and reappears on the celebrated mountain — ‘ 
Fusiyama, whence most of the plants grown in this country | 
have been procured.—J. D. H. a 
Fig. 1, Leaves viewed on surface facing the light ; 2, ditto from opposite surface; o 
3, transverse section of leaf (the resin-canal not near enough to margin); 4, outer 
face of scale and bract ; 5, inuer face of ditto and ovules :—ad/ enlarged. 
