146 ON THE SYNONYMY OF VARIOUS. CONIFERS, 
arboriculturists, however, reserving their opinion, and preferring to dis- 
tinguish it by the name of the Californian Hemlock Spruce. 
Specimens of Jeffrey's species are preserved in the Kew and Edinburgh 
Botanie Museums, and specimens of young branches and leaves are to 
be had in most nurseries; but until now no specimens of Bongard's 
species were accessible in this country, We have however lately received, 
through the kindness of Professor Regel, of St. Petersburg, specimens of 
gard's Abies Mertensiana, collected by Eschscholtz in Sitcha, and we 
have thus materials from which to form an opinion as to their identity. 
From an examination of these it appears clear beyond a doubt that 
Jeffrey's plant is not Bongard’s Abies Mertensiana. 
Both are true Hemlock Spruces, but in Jeffrey’s the pulvini are small 
and widely separated, while in Bongard’s they are placed unusually 
close to each other. We know of no Hemlock Spruce which has them 
зо close to each other, and Bongard, in his description, takes particular 
notice of this charaeter. He says that ‘ the branches and branchlets are 
very much tubereulated after the leaves have fallen." Figs. 6 and 7 
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Fig.9. ‘Fig. 10, 
Abies Abies Abies 
Mertensiana. Albertiana, Mertensiana. 
represent the pulvini on a branch and branchlet of Jeffrey's species ; Fig. 
8 shows a portion of a twig of the true Abies Mertensiana; Figs. 9 
10 show the leaves of each. The cones, also, are diff t, Jeffrey’ 
a slight resemblance’ to that of A, Pattoniana, and Bongard's being ex- 
ceedingly like the cone of iat ley 
pe species brought home by Mr. J. G. Veitch under that name.* Fig. 
adi vin lis cone of Jeffrey's tree, and Fig. 12 that of Bongard's. The 
trucs are differently shaped; see Fig, 18, Jeffrey’s,and Fig. 14, Bongard's. 
е description of the scale given by Bongard sufficiently indicated this 
* Proceady Sketch of the Conifers of Japan,” which din the 
Proceedings” of this Society last I clas ras, Ч 
Lariz leptolepi да} ud Ast year, iy tie тен iree 
Fig. 6. Fig. 7. 
Abies 
Albertiana, 
, ? ав а lesser variety 
а r appellation of L. leptolepis var. minor. 
the time that І ч considerable doubt whether it was aid ce аы ыны 
distings. In a second edition of the О ought bo be treated as 
described it as a new species ander the name $i ы ра 
е 
| 1 figure gives the cone with eight ro 
on pe ated spiral i ad of five, as in Mr. Veitch's tree, рона оао 
figure > 1з correct, settles t A If his figure is not correct, that is not 
fault ; a deseriber can only d with the materials which are presented to him.—A.- 
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