SKETCH OP THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 



501- 



The pliyllulse, however, are more transverse, and the pulvini a 

 little shorter in A, Menziesii than in A. Jezoensis. The form of 

 the very young cone is very much the same in hoth, but the 

 bracts are different, giving a well-marked and readily recognisable 

 character by which to distinguish them, fig, 196 being the bract 

 of A. Je^oensh, and fig. 127 that of A. Menziesii, in the young 

 cone. The young seeds also are somewhat different in form. 

 Compare fig. 128, which is a repetition of Siebold's figure of 

 the young seeds or ovules, above quoted, and fig. 129, which 

 represents a young seed of ^. Meni^iesii three times magnified. 



Abies polita [Siehold S Zuccarini), 



Fig. 13a-AbiesPolita, 



Abies polita, Sieb. & Zucc, Flor. Jap., ii. 20, t. Ill (1842). 



„ Lind. & Gord., Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 212 (1850). 



