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side shorter, overlapping and directed forwards, more or less 

 covering the shoot, flattened, gradually widening above, about 

 f in. long, i-j-u-, in. wide; apex rounded and notched, upper 

 surface shining yellowish green, grooved ; lower surface with two 

 white bands of stomata ; resin canals marginal. Cones about 

 4 in. long and 2 in. in diameter, deep blue before ripening, dark 

 brown when mature, more or less elliptical with a blunt apex ; 

 scales fan-shaped, about 1 in, wide by | in. long ; bract hidden by 

 the scale. Seed with a wing about | in. long. 



This species differs from A. Veitchii in its more downy shoots, 

 leaves with a rounded apex and larger cones. 



A. Mariesii is an alpine species found in the mountains of 

 Central Japan. It is the only native species in Hondo, where 

 it was discovered by Maries on Mount Hakkoda in 1878. It was 

 introduced into cultivation about 1879. A tree at Trcgrehan, 

 Cornwall, is 30 ft. high. 



This species has Uttle commercial importance, for it is too 

 scarce in Japan for any except local use. It is a very attractive 

 plant under cultivation, but is rather fastidious in its requirements. 

 The best results are obtained by planting it in rich, moist soil 

 where atmospheric conditions are pure and on the moist side. 

 It grows well on the rich, light soils of Hampshire and Surrey, 



PI. Wils. 59 (191G); Clinton-Baker, Illust. Conif. ii, 18 (1909). 



Abies nebrodensis, Mattel. 



An extremely rare fir, of which apparently only one tree 

 exists on Monte Cervo near the Valley of Pmes m the region of 

 PoUzzo, Sicily, It is distinguished from A. jiectinata by its 

 glabrous shoots and non-pectinate needles, and from ^. cejjhalonica 

 (of which it has the resinous buds) by its short needles rounded 

 at the apex with a minute point and less white below. The cones 

 are described as being about a quarter the size of those of A. 

 pectinata and cyUndrical in form like those of A. cephalonica. 



This fir, which seems to have been frequent in Sicily at the 

 beginning of the eighteenth century, was already very scarce 

 before 1750. A small branch obtained from the old tree on Monte 

 Cervo in 1914 is preserved in the Kew Herbarium. Another tree 

 formerly grew near a Capucin convent on the Hill of Pines near 

 Polizzo, but no longer exists. Grafts obtained from the above 

 tree through the instrumentality of M. Dode of Paris are being 

 tried in French nurseries. 



Bull, de Jard. Bot. de Palermo, vii. 64 (1908) ; Hickel, Bull. Soc. Dcndr. 

 France, 20 (1909). 



Abies nephrolepis, Maximowicz, 



Abies sibirica, var. nephrole])is, Trautvetter, 



A Manchurian fir described by the Japanese botanist Maxi- 

 mowicz in 1866, It is closely aUied to A. Veitchii, but is chiefly 



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