46 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



39983 to 39998. 



From Jamaica Plain, Mass. Presented by the Arnold Arboretum. Received 

 February 2G, 1915. Collected in Japan by Mr. E. H. Wilson. 

 39983 to 39987. Abies spp. Pinacese. Fir. 



39983. Abies makiesii Masters. Maries's fir. 



Wilson No. 7595. 



"A tree 40 to 50, occasionally SO, feet high, of compact, pyramidal 

 form ; young shoots very densely covered with red-brown down, which 

 persists several years; buds small, globose, completely encased in 

 resin. Leaves- one-third to 1 inch long, one-twelfth inch wide; dark 

 shining green and deeply grooved above; glaucous beneath, with two 

 broad bands of stomata ; apex rounded and notched. The lower ranks 

 spread horizontally, whilst the upper shorter ones point forward and 

 completely hide the shoot. Cones 3 to 4 inches long, about 2 inches 

 wide, rounded at the top, egg shaped, purple when young; bracts 

 hidden. 



"Discovered on Mount Hakkoda, in Japan, by Charles Maries in 

 1S7S, and introduced by him at the same time. It is one of the rarest 

 of silver firs, and scarcely a good tree exists in the country. I saw 

 a small healthy specimen at Scone Palace in 1906. Two years later, in 

 Mr. Hesse's nursery at Weener, in Hanover. I saw a healthy batch 

 he had raised from seeds. I do not know that it has borne cones in 

 this country. (The fir figured in the Botanical Magazine, t. S09S, is 

 A. wcbbiana.) Maries's fir is best distinguished by the thick red- 

 brown covering of down on the twigs." ( 11'. •/. liean, Trees and Shrubs 

 Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 1, p. 123.) 



39984. Abies sachalinensis (Schmidt) Masters. Fir. 



Wilson No. 7613. 



"A tree 130 feet high, native of northern Japan, Sakhalin, etc., 

 but so liable to injury by late spring frost in this country as to be of 

 no value. It has the nordmanniana arrangement of leaf, but in the 

 forward-pointing leaves, which are three-fourths to li inches long 

 and very white beneath, it resembles .4. veitchii; buds while, resinous. 

 Cones 2J to 3^ inches long. Introduced in 1878, by Maries, for 

 Messrs. Veitch. I saw a tree about 16 feet high at Murthly Castle, 

 near Perth, in 1906, but even there not in the best of health." ( \V. J. 

 Bean, Trees and shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. J, p. 117.) 



39985. Abies sachalinensis nemobensis Mayr. 



Wilson No. 7869. 



See S. P. I. No. 39860 for previous introduction and description. 



39086. Abies umbki.i.ata Mayr. 



Wilson No. 7707. 



"Abies umbellata is quite closely allied to, and may be merely a 

 form of, 1. brachyphylla, but the leaves are more distinctly sep- 

 arated into two opposed sets, and the V-shaped opening left by the 

 Uppermost leaves is much wider; they are also longer (up to li 

 inches), the stomatic bands beneath are narrower and duller white, 



the apex is much more tapered, and the double points made by the 

 notch are sharp, almost spiny. An interesting distinction is pointed 

 out by Henry in the corrugation of the branchlets; in 1. umbellata 

 this is less apparent in the second and third years; in 4. brachyphylla 

 It is more pronounced. A cut brauchlet bears a considerable re- 



