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Picea Wilsoni, Masters. i (Fig. 81.) 



P. Watsoniana, Masters. 



A small tree, about 40 ft. high in China, with slender, horizontal 

 branches of more or less equal length from the base to the top 

 of the tree. Young shoots pale brown or buff-coloured, shining, 



Fig. 81.— picea WILSONI. 



a, spray from above, b, from side ; c, winter bud ; d, under-side of shoot and leaves ; e, section of 



leaf. 



furrowed, becoming grey with age. Winter buds ovoid, up to 

 about I in. long, with chestnut brown scales Leaves densely 

 clothing the shoot above, but spreading in two lateral sets below 

 at right-angles to the shoot, quadrangular, dark shining green, 

 up to 1 in. long, very narrow, sUghtly curved with 3-4 lines of 

 stomata on each surface. Cones small, about 2 in. long, falling 

 from the tree soon after they are ripe ; scales pale brown, 

 1 Gard Chron. Ser. 3, xxxiii, 133, fig. 55, 56 (1903). 



