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Branchlets glabrous or with more or less gray pubescence; winter-buds not swollen at 

 the base, dull- to chestnut-brown; cone ovoid-cylindrical, from 6 to 12 cm. long. 



P. BICOLOK. 



Leaves flattened, narrowly elliptic in section, with white lines on one surface; branchlets 

 glabrous and shining; winter-buds swollen at the base, broad-conical, resinous and 

 shining P. Jezoensis. 



PICEA POLITA Carr. 



Plates XIX and XX 



Picea polita Carriere, TraitS Conif. 256 (1855). Masters in Gard. Chron. n. 

 ser. XIII. 233, fig. 44 (1880); in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIH. 507, t. 19 (1881). 

 Mayr, Monog. Abiet. Jap. 46, t. 3, fig. 7. Sargent, Forest Fl. Jap. 80 (1894). 

 Kent in Veitch, Man. Conif. ed. 2, 446, fig. 110 (1900). Matsumura, Ind. PI. Jap. 

 II. pt. 1, 13 (1905). Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. II. t. 2, fig. 18-29 (1908). 

 Beissner, Handb. Nadelh. ed. 2, 250, fig. 51, 52 (1909). Clinton-Baker, III. Conif. 

 II. 45, t. (1909). Hayata, Veget. ML Fuji, 93, fig. 12, 28 (1911). Elwes & Henry, 

 Trees Gr. Brit. & Irel. VI. 1370 (1912). 



Abies torano Siebold in Verh. Batav. Genoot. XII. pt. 1, 12 (Syn. PI. Oecon. Jap.) 



(name only) (1830). K. Koch. Dendr. II. pt. 2, 233 (1873). 

 Abies polita Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 20, t. 3 (1842). Lindley & Gordon in 



Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. V. 212 (1850). Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 



466 (1875). 

 Pinus polita Antoine, Conif. 95, t. 36, fig. 1 (1846). Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 121 



(1847). 

 Abies Smithiana Gordon, Pinet. 12 (as to the Japanese plant, not Loudon) (1858); 



Pinet. suppl. 12 (as to the synonym Abies Thunbergii) (1862). 

 Abies Khutrow Henkel & Hochstetter, Syn. Nadelh. 199 (as to the Japanese plant, 



not Loudon) (1865). 

 Picea Khutrow Willkomm, Forstl. Fl. 95 (as to the Japanese plant, not Carriere) 



(1887). 

 Picea Torano Koehne, Deutsch. Dendr. 22 (1893). Sargent, Silva N. Am. XII. 



21 (1898). 

 Pinus torano Voss in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. XVI. 93 (1907). 



Around the northerly end of Lake Yamanaka, situated at the base of the north- 

 ern slope of Fuji-san, there is a pure forest of this Spruce. This most interesting 

 forest is growing on an old lava flow. The lava is broken into a maze of irregular, 

 rugged blocks and is very porous in structure and water is present below. Not far 

 away on the slope above Kagozaka pass there is a park-like area with many trees 

 of this Spruce growing in cinders and ashes and among coarse grasses and shrubs. 

 At Subashiri on the eastern slope of Fuji-san there are a few trees of P. polita 

 growing isolated, or in company with Abies homolepis S. & Z., Larix Kaempferi 

 Sarg., Pinus densiflora S. & Z. and broad-leaved trees such as Zelkova serrata 

 Mak., Quercus mongolica, var. grosserrata Rehd. & Wils., and Prunus Maximowiczii 

 Rupr. Higher up on the slopes of Fuji-san this Spruce grows in mixed forests in the 

 same zone as P. bicolor Mayr, but is not very common. In the ascent from Nikko to 

 Lake Chuzenji I saw a few young trees growing among Beech, Oak, Maple, and 

 Birch, and Sargent collected cones in the same locality and noted that the trees 

 were small and decrepit in appearance. I have seen material collected by Mayr on 

 Shirane-san in Kai province and it has been reported from Tosa province in Shikoku. 



