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6 ORD. [. Conifere. PINUS PICEA, 
PINUS PICEA. SILVER FIR TREE. 
Terebinthina communis. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. 
SYNONYMA. Abies conis sursum spectantibus, seu mas. Bauh. 
Pin. p.505. Abies. Ger. Emac. p. 1363. Park. Theat. p. 1539. 
Abies Taxi foliis. Raii Hist. p. 1894. Synop. p. 441. Abies 
foliis solitariis emarginatis, conis oblongis erectis, squamis subro- 
tundis planis basi acuminatis: Du Roy, Baumz. T. 2 p. 95. Hall. 
n. 1657. Pinus Picea. Huds. Flor. Ang. p. 361. Abies taxi 
folio, fructu sursum spectante. Du Hamel. Arb.1. p.3.t.1. The 
Silver Fir Tree, Hunter’s Evel. Sylva. 178. 
Sp. Ch. P. foliis solitariis planis emarginatis pectinatis, squamis 
coni obtusissimis adpressis. Hort. Kew. 
THIS tree seldom grows to the height of the former species: its 
_ bark 1s closer, and that of the branches is of a shining silvery hue: 
the leaves are solitary, short, rigid, and on the under side marked 
with two longitudinal whitish lines; on the upper branches they are 
obtusely pointed, and grow so close as almost to conceal the bark; 
on the lower branches they are emarginated, and stand in a 
pectinated manner: the cones are upright, large, and furnished 
with scales, which, when young, have a membranous appendage, 
rising from the upper margin, but when fully formed, the scales 
are very obtuse, and closely embrace each other. It is a native of 
Switzerland and Germany; and according to the Hortus Kewensis . 
was first cultivated in the Chelsea Garden, 1739; but as thirty-six 
fine trees of this species are mentioned by Plot and Ray as growing 
near Newport, in Shropshire, it must have been cultivated in this 
country at a much earlier period. 
Though Linnzus, and several other writers on the Matera 
Medica, refer the common turpentine to the pinus sylvestris, and 
