ARBORETUM NOTES. 139 
CONIFERZ:. 
ABIETINAS. 
The young branches are very rough all over with 
these tubercles, which are the projecting apices of 
ridges (called pulvint by Endlicher that are in 
reality, the adherent bases or petioles of the leaves. 
The young branches of the Common Spruce are 
rough in precisely the same manner, but in a less 
degree, the ridges and tubercles being smaller and 
less prominent than in Menziesi. 
(April, 1877). A number of the cones have 
been blown off from the tree in the arboretum, 
and are now in my collection; they agree 
exactly with Gordon’s description (Pinetum p. 7.) 
Isaw inr8 that there were cones on the tree, but 
confined to the topmost branches, and I could 
mereget at them; so ‘these are old cones, and 
have shed their seeds. They are very small in 
comparison with those of the Common Spruce and 
the khutrow; being only three inches long; the 
scales numerous and small, crowded, but (at least 
in this old state), widely spreading and almost 
re-curved, thin, and in particular very thin at the 
edge, their ends remarkably and _ irregularly 
toothed and jagged. Gordon expressively de- 
scribes them as ‘‘bitten.’’ The colour of the old 
cones is a dull brown. 
(February, 1878). I see cones at present on 
the other tree of this species—the one in the 
Vicarage grove; but as before, they are only 
on the topmost branches. 
Abies 
Menziesil 
