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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART HI. 



Mnri r^%^ T\ •°'^',-- ^?/^''' ^- P- 5H-; A- pecHn^ta Dec. Fl. Fr., 2. p. ^5., N. Du 

 T.^r4ht !^i' 4 'axiP^ia //o;/. P„,-. ; ,4. Picea Lindl. in P«,«. Cyc, No. 1 ^A excikl 

 Lmk Ahha,uf., &c Jahr 1827, p. 182. ; Spanish Fir ; Sapin commun, Sapin d Feu lies A'lfS 

 i;'ir«tvSrLrrPi„'re7 1.^^74^^^^ '^ ^°^'"^"'^'^' ^'•- ■> -^'- Ta„ne, EdeUanne^'b^.!''" 



Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur., 3. ; Ann ' 



t. 13 f. 29. 44. : Pall. Ross., 1. t. If] . X>. «„„- 



F. ; Wooilv. Med. Bot., t. 204. : Reit v \A W/ N,. ^^ot 



und Abel. Abb., t. 98. ; N. Du Ham ', 

 5. t. 8-2.; ouryfg. 2237. of the natural 

 size, and Jig. 2238. to our usual scale ; 

 and the plates of this species in our 

 last Volume. 



Spec. Char., l^c. Leaves soli- 

 tary, flat, obtuse; 2-ranked, 

 with their points turned up. 

 Cones axillary, cylindrical, 

 erect; scales with a long 

 dorsal bractea. Anthers with 

 a short crest, with two teeth. 

 (Lois.) Buds short, egg- 

 shaped, blunt ; of a reddish 

 yellow, with from 16 to 20 



blunt scales. Leaves from 

 4 in. to 1 in. long, stiff, turned 



up at the points; of a shining 



dark green above, and with 



two lines of silvery white on 



each side of the midrib be- 

 neath. Cones from 6 in. to 



8 in. long, and from 1| in. to 



2 in. broad; cylindrical,' green 



when young, afterwards red- 

 dish, and, when ripe, brown. 



Scale I in. to li in. long, and 



^ in. broad. Seeds variously 



angular, | in. long, and -^^ in. 



broad. Cotyledons 5. The 



blossoms appear in May, and 



the cones are matured in the 



October of thefollowingyear. 



Varieties. 



1 P. /?. 2 tortuosa Booth has 

 the branches and 

 branchlets remarkably 

 twisted or crooked. 

 There is a plant in 

 Messrs. Loddiges's ar- 

 boretum 3 ft. high. 

 I P. ]). Sfoliis variegdtis has 

 the leaves variegated. 

 There is a fine plant 

 of this variety, about 

 4 ft. high, in the col- 

 lection of the Rev. 

 Theodore Williams, 

 at Ilcndon ; and the 

 lower branch of a 

 large tree at White 



Knights has become variegated, from which we have brought cut- 

 t.ng.s, and presented them to the Horticultural Society, and o the 

 Hammersmith and Fulham Nurseries. 



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