PINACEiE 105 



Abies insignis, Carrie re. ^ 



A hybrid fir originally raised in the nursery of M. Renault at 

 Bulgneville in the Vosges. A branch of A. Pinsapo grafted on 

 the common silver fir produced cones and from the seedlings 

 raised half were like the graft, the remainder being intermediate 

 in character between A . Pinsapo and A . pectinata. The variations 

 were supposed to be the result of a graft hybrid. It is probable 

 however that the male parent was A. Nordmanniana, a tree of 

 which was growing near. 



Var. speciosa, Rehder. 



A. Nordmanniana, var. speciosa Hort. 



A hybrid of the same parentage in which a reciprocal cross 

 was made by placing pollen from A. Pinsapo on the female 

 flowers of A. Nordmanniana. Four varieties of this hybrid 

 described as A. Kentiana, A. Andreana, A. Beissn^riana and A. 

 Mastersiana by Mottet, in which A. Pinsapo was made the 

 mother tree, were obtained by M. Moser at Versailles in 1878. 



Rev. Hort. 1902, p. 1G3. 



Abies Kawakamii, Ito.^ 



A. Mariesii, var. Kawakamii, Hayata. 



A Formosan fir of which we have not seen specimens, found 

 on and near Mt. Morrison at 11,000-12,000 ft. altitude. It is 

 said to differ from A. Mariesii chiefly in its longer cyhndrical 

 cones with black seeds and seed-wings. Wilson ^ describes it as 

 a handsome tree 50-120 ft. high, of pyramidal habit, with nearly 

 white bark, and resinous violet-purple cones, but at its highest 

 limits on Mt. Morrison and on wind swept slopes above Noko 

 reduced to a bush 5-8 ft. high. 



Abies koreana, Wilson."* (Fig. 19.) 

 CoREAN Fir. 



Abies nephrolepis, Nakai [not Maximowicz]. 



A tree 30-50 ft. high in Corea, with a trunk 3-6 ft. in girth. 

 Bark of young trees smooth, purplish to pale ashen in colour, 

 rough, deeply fissured in old trees. Branches numerous, spread- 

 ing. Branchlets slightly furrowed, sparingly hairy. Buds sub- 

 globose, slightly resinous with somewhat acute membranous, 

 chestnut-brown scales. Leaves about 1 in. long and iV in. broad, 

 notched at the apex or sometimes entire and sharply pointed, 

 dark green and grooved above, white with two broad bands of 

 stomata below, resin canals two, marginal. Cones cylindrical, 



^ Rev. Hort. 1890, pp. 230, 231. ^ Encyclopaedia Jap. ii, p. 167. 

 ' Phyt Sketch, Formosa, Journ. Am. Arb. i, 38 (1920). 

 * Journ. Am. Arb. i, 188 (1920). 



