ARBORETUM NOTES. 137 
CONIFERA:: 
ABIETINEZ. 
Smithiana (at least, in the valleys ef the Sutle) and 
fee Ganges.) appears. to be Ra: or Ror, and 
sometimes Raz-sulla. 
ABIES MENZIESII. 
Tcoudon, V4) 232%: 
Gordon, Pinetum, p. 6. 
Two brought from Knight’s nursery, and 
planted by my father, in 1847; one in the western 
part of the arboretum, not far from the A‘sculus 
Indica; the other in the Vicarage grove. Both 
Bice unourishing exceedingly, and) yare.; very 
symmetrical and handsome trees, of amazingly 
rapid growth; the general habit, like that of the 
common Spruce, or even more rigid, and disting- 
uishable at a distance by the silvery or glaucous 
hue of the leaves. I do not think that any of our 
Firs have surpassed (hardly equalled) these in the 
length of the annual shoots. Neither of them 
have yet borne cones, and therefore I feel some 
doubt as to the accuracy of the name, for the 
leaves do not agree with Lambert’s or rather David 
Don’s description, though the short specific 
character in Endlicher’s Synopsis suits them well 
enough. It is well known that David Don was 
faevreal author of all the scientific part of 
Lambert’s ‘‘Genus Pinus.” 
Abies 
Smithiana 
Abies 
Menziesii 
