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and with rather distant dark green stiff and sharply pointed leaves 0.8-2 

 cm. long. 



Picea Abies, f. columnaris, comb. nov. 



Abies excelsa var. columnaris Jacques in Ann. Soc. Hort. Paris, xliv. 653 (1853). 



Picea excrtsa columnaris ( larriare, Traite Conif. 24S (1855).— Boehm in Zeitschr- 

 Forst. Jagdwes. xxv. 228, fig. 4 (1895), as var.— Con went z in Abh.Landesk- 

 Prov. Westpreuss. ix. 158 (1895), as forma;— Schroeter in Vierteljahrsschr- 

 Naturf. Ges. Zuerich, xuv 173, 233, fig. 19-21 (1898), as lusus; in Ber. 

 Schweiz. Bot. Ges. xm. 109, fig. 4 (1903).— Badoux, Beaux Arbres Cant. 

 Vaud, 40, fig. (1910), as lusus. 



P. excelsa var. pyramidal is subvar. columnaris Schneider in Silva Tarouca, Uns 



Freiland-Nadelhoelz. 230, fig. 122 (1913). 



This form is a tree with short nearly horizontally spreading much rami- 

 fied branchlets of nearly equal length giving to the tree a narrow cylindric 

 or columnar shape. It was first described by Jacques, who observed it in 

 cultivation in the nursery of Cochet, at Suimes near Brie Comte Robert 

 (Seine-et-Marne), France; it also has been found growing spontaneous- 

 ly with the type in a few localities in Switzerland and Germany. 



Picea Abies f. cupressina, comb. nov. 



P. exceha lusus cupressina Thomas in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. xvi. 252, pi 

 8 (1909).— Schelle, Winterh. Nadelhoelz. Mitteleur. 82 (1909). 



P. excelsa var. pyramidalis subvar. cupressina Schneider in Silva Tarouca, Uns 

 Freiland-Nadelhoelz. 230 (1913). 



This form is a tree with ascending branches furnished chiefly toward 

 the end with crowded rather short branchlets forming a very compact 

 columnar head rounded at the apex. This rounded apex is the chief 

 difference between this form and P. Abies f. pyramidata (Carr.)Rehd. which 

 also is a narrow almost fastigiate tree, but of more conical outline and 

 distinctly pointed at the apex. Picea Abies f. cupressina was discovered 

 by Professor Dr. Thomas in Tambach, Thuringia, Germany, and first 

 described in 1907. The tree has been propagated by grafting and a young 

 plant obtained in 1910 from A. II. Hesse in Weener is growing in this 

 Arboretum. 



Picea Abies f. Veitchii, comb. nov. 



P. exedsa Gregoriana forma Veitchii Hornibrook, Dwarf Conif. 97 (1923). 



Mr. Hornibrook states that this was sent out about 25 years ago by 

 Veitch as var. Gregoriana together with the true var. Gregoriana from 

 which it differs in its more vigorous habit forming a larger, less compact 

 and broader conical bush, in its longer branchlets inclined to droop and 

 in its leaves being radial in arrangement and stiff and needle-shaped 



only on the leading shoots, thinner and flatter and semi-radial or nearlv 

 pectinate on the lateral branchlets. 



Picea Abies f. Parsonsii, comb. nov. 



P. excelsa Gregoriana forma Parsonsii Hornibrook, Dwarf Conif. 98 (1923). 



According to Mr. Hornibrook this form was sent out by S. B. Parsons 

 of Flushing, New York, as var. Clanbrasiliana. It is similar to P. Abies 



