352 SKETCH OF THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 



Abies Jinnay Siebold and Zuccarlnl, Flora JapouMii- 15, tab. 107 



(1842). 



f> 99 



»» 99 



f» 5» 



ft M 



Lindley and Gordon, Journ. Hort, See. v. JilO 



(1850). 

 Carriere, Trait, Gen. des Conif. 212 (1855). 

 Lindley in Gardeners' Chronicle (2 3 March , 



1861). 

 Veitch in Gardeners' Chronicle (5 April, 1862). 



Firms Jirma^ Antoine, Conif. 70 tab- 27, bis. (1846). 



» 79 



Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 99 (1847). 



Piceajliinay Gordon, Pinetum, 147 (1858). 



Picea foliis perennibus linearibus latis, obtuse rotundatis 

 emarginatis planis subtus carinatis bilineatis firrais approximatis 

 subdistichis ; phyllulis orbicularibus, pulvinis vix . prominulis, 

 ramulia junioribus pubescentibus ; amentis masculis stipitatis 

 cylindricis, antheris transversim dehiscentibus appendice brevis- 

 sima callosa; strobilis lateralibus annuls deflexis cylindricis 

 obtusis, bracteis e basi longe cuneata lanceolatis acutis crenulatis 

 membranaceis squamam superantibus, squamis e basi late cuneata 

 rotundatis coreaceis mai*gine levissime attenuate sub-crenulatis 

 vix sine lente conspicuis. In meridionalibus insulse Kiusiu pro- 

 vinciis rarior et plerumque culta. Septentrionem versus per 

 totam Japoniam occurrit, in montibus ad 2000-4000 pedes 

 supra oceanum v. c, in insulse Nippon provinciis Suruga, Kai, 

 Sinano, Idsu, Mutsu, Dewa rel. frequentissima. 



A lofty tree of the habit of P. pectinata (the common Silver). 

 The branchlets are close, with the leaf-scars (phyllulae) orbicular, 

 marked in the centre with an umbo, pubescent, with short 

 brownish furfuraceous hairs ; the bases of the leaf-scars (pulvini) 

 scarcely rising above the surface and obsoletely angled, the 

 impression above the phyllulse short, that below long, the whole 

 forming an obsolete elongated rhomboid, the long lower part of 

 which does not fall in the centre between two phyllulae, but 

 close to that on the right side (fig, 64). The buds protected with 

 scales, rounded-conical, pergaminous and glabrous, shining 

 through a thin coat of resin (fig, 65) ; the scales numerous, 

 closely imbricated, after bursting becoming united into a cylin- 

 drical tube at the base of the branchlets, and persistent for 

 several years (fig. 06), Leaves very closely approximated, grow- 

 ing all round the leaf, but expanded in a distichous manner, so 

 that there are comparatively fefv leaves lying on the 'upper or 



