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PICEA ; OR 



divided (bifid) ; but such variations appear to be produced by 

 elevation, climate, and soil, and are, as well as Dr. Siebold's 

 Abies homolepis, nothing but the species altered by such cir- 

 cumstances. 



It is not yet introduced. 



No. 5. PiCEA Fraseri, Loudon, Eraser's Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies balsamea Fraseri, Spach. 

 „ Pinus Fraseri, Pursh. 

 „ Abies Fraseri, Lindley. 



Leaves, solitary, irregularly two-rowed, linear, flat, emar- 

 ginated, or bluntly two-lobed at the ends, deep-green above, 

 silvery beneath, shorter, and more erect than those of the Balm 

 of Gilead Fir, and denser on the branches. Cones, erect, 

 oblong egg-shaped, two inches long, and rather more than one 

 inch broad, and singly on the upper surface of the branches. 

 Scales, orbicularly wedge-shaped, and half an inch broad ; 

 bracteas, inversely heart-shaped in the upper part, sharp-pointed, 

 half-projecting beyond the scales, reflexed, or bent backwards, 

 very broad and^in regular rows. 



A small tree, growing from fifteen to twenty feet high, thickly 

 set with rather flat branches and branchlets, found on the 

 mountains of Carolina and Pennsylvania. ■ 



There is the following variety : — 



PiCEA Fraseri Hudsonica, Knight, the Hudson's Bay Silver 



Fir. 

 Syn. Picea Fraseri Hudsonia, Loudon. 

 „ Abies Hudsonia, Bosc. 

 „ |Picea Hudsonia, Hort. 

 „ „ balsamea prostrata. Knight. 

 „ Abies Fraseri nana, Hort. 

 „ „ balsamea prostrata. Knight. 

 This is a very dwarf variety, not growing more than three or 

 four feet high, but forming a dense, close bush with a flat top. 



It comes from the Hudson Bay Company's territory in North 

 America. 



