Tab. 6992. 

 abies nobdmanniana. 



Native of Asia Minor. 



Nat. Ord. Conifers. — Tribe Abietine.e. 

 Genus Abies, Juss. (in part) ; (Benth. et HooJc.f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 441.) 



Abies Nordmanniana ; arbor excelsa, coma pyramidali, ramis horizontalibus ver- 

 ticillatis inferioribus deflexis, foliis in ramulos steriles crebris, aliis distichis 

 patulis, aliis decumbentibus subimbricatis, omnibus linearibus planis apice 

 retusis supra saturate viridibus vix sulcatis subtus uni-costatis albo-bilineatis, 

 foliis in ramulos amentiteros curvis ascendentibus erectisve, amentis sessilibus 

 elliptico-oblongis cylindraceisve, bracteis e basi oblonga spatbulatis cuspidatis 

 exsertis reflexis, squamis e basi brevi cuneata reniformibus secus marginem 

 puberulis, seminis ala cuneata nucleo subduplo breviore. 



A. Nordmanniana, Spach Hist. Nat. Pha?ierog. ii. 418 ; Carriere Conif. p. 203; 

 Henkel # Hochst. Conif. p. 173 ; Regel Gartenfl. vol. xx. (1871) p. 259, 

 t. 699 ; Boiss. FL Orient, vol. v. p. 703. 



Picea Nordmanniana, Loud . Encycl. PL p. 1042, fig. 1950. 



Pinus Nordmanniana, Steven in Bull. Soc. Mosq. 1838, p. 45, f. 2 ; Antoine Conif. 



t. 22, f. 2 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. p. 93. 

 P. Abies, Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 421 (in part). 

 ? P. Picea, var. leioclada, Steven; Ledeh. FL Ross. vol. iii. p. 669. 

 ? P. Picea, Pall. FL Boss. vol. i. p. 7. 



A. Nordmanniana belongs to a group of five closely 

 allied European and West Asiatic Silver-firs, the limits of 

 which are not yet well defined. Of these the type is A. 

 pectinata, Link, the common Silver-fir, which extends from 

 the centre of France eastwards to middle Russia, and re- 

 appears in Macedonia and Greece, extending to Anatolia 

 in the extreme east of Asia Minor, and according to 

 Ledebour also in the Caucasian districts of Imeretia and 

 Ossatia. A. Apollonis, Link, with its varities Panachaica 

 and Begince Amelice, is confined to the mountains of Greece 

 and Macedonia. A. cephalonica, Link, is more restricted 

 still, being found only in the small island whose name it 

 bears. Both these last are considered as forms of A. 

 pectinata by Heldreich, the most competent authority by 

 far on Greek botany. A. cilicica, Antoine and Kotschy, 

 is the most southern species, being confined to the Taurus 

 and Anti-Taurus Mountains in Ancient Cilicia, and to the 

 Lebanon ; it is the only Levantine species, and differs re- 

 markably from all the above, and from the following in the 

 retrorsely hooked angles of the scales. Lastly, there is 



APEIL 1st, 1888. 



