180 THE BOOK OF EVERGREENS. 



plants answering the description of A. homolepis in the 

 first year, and having leaves bifid during the second, etc. 



12. A. JezocnsiS} Siebold & Zuccarini. Syn. Pinus Je- 

 zoensis, Antoine & Endlicher. Leaves, from 8 to 12 

 lines in length, very persistent, (for seven years), spirally 

 arranged, alternate but not distichous, sessile, linear, 

 acerose, acute, and terminating in a spinous point, entire, 

 obsoletely 4-sided, bright green above. (Mature cones not 

 known.) Female aments, solitary, oblongo-cylindrical, 

 sub-curvate; bracts, minute, rhomboidally spathul.ite, 

 alternated from the base, acute or cuspidate, somewhat 

 crenulated, appressed, and smaller than the scale. (Murray.) 



In our description of Abies Fortunii will be found the 

 characteristics which distinguish that species from this; 

 and as the two had been generally confounded and treat- 

 ed as the same until Murray separated them and described 

 the leading points of each, we take pleasure in recording 

 his decision here. The true A. Jezoensis of Siebold and 

 Zuccarini forms a large sized tree, and produces a smooth, 

 soft timber, which is useful for manufacturing into house- 

 hold utensils and is frequently employed for arrows, etc. 



" This tree," say Siebold and Zuccarini, " which grows 

 wild in the Islands of Jezo and Krafto, is cultivated as a 

 rarity in the gardens of the wealthy, at Jeddo." In Sar- 

 gent's edition of Downing's Landscape Gardening, the 

 author says, " Our specimens, which are small, seem quite 

 hardy," and it is to be desired that they may prove per- 

 manently so on a longer trial. This is the JTezo-Matsu of 

 the Japanese, and resembles closely A. Menziesil. 



13. A, microsperma, Lindley & Veitch. Leaves, from 

 J- to 1J- inch in length, from ^ to f- of a line in breadth, 

 numerous, closely approximated, solitary, linear, sub-te- 

 tragonal. Cones, from 1 J to 2^ inches long, from % to f- of 

 an inch in diameter, pale cinnamon color, with very per- 

 sistent oblong scales, that are glabrous when exposed, and 

 tomentose when not ; bracts, small, rounded and serrated. 



