42 CONIFERS AND TAXADS OF JAPAN 



Picea Glehnii was discovered in Saghalien in August 1861 by P. von Glehn, the 

 comrade of Fr. Schmidt on the expedition sent out by the Russian Geographical 

 Society to eastern Asia. It was subsequently found in Hokkaido by Charles 

 Maries in 1877. According to Beissner (Handb. Nadelh. 377 [1891]) young seed- 

 ling plants were growing in Germany in 1891. 



PICEA BICOLOR Mayr 



Picea bicolor Mayr, Monog. Abiet. Jap. 49, t. 3, fig. 8 (1890). Sargent, 

 Forest Fl. Jap. 80 (1894); Silva N. Am. XII. 21 (1898). Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. 

 For. Jap. I. 19, t. 4, fig. 1-14 (1900). Elwes & Henry, Trees Gr. Brit. & Irel. VI. 

 1372 (1912). DUmmer in Jour. Hort. Soc. Land. XXXIX. 88 (1913). Silva 

 Tarouca, Tins. Freiland-N adelh. 22, fig. 12 (1913). 



Abies Alcoquiana J. G. Veitch apud Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1861, 23 (in part); 1862, 

 308. Murray in Proc. Hort. Soc. Lond. II. 426, fig. 106-110 (in part) (1862); 

 Pines & Firs Jap. 66, fig. 116, 125-128 (1863). Gordon, Pinet. suppl. 8 (A. Al- 

 coqueana sic, in part). K. Koch, Dendr. II. pt. 2, 245 (in part) (1873). 



Picea japonica Regel in Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1865, 33 (name only); 1866, 3 (as a 

 synonym). 



Abies bicolor Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 3, X. 488 (1866) ; 

 in Mel. Biol. VI. 24 (1866). Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 467 (1875). 



Picea Alcockiana Carriere, TraitS Gonif. ed. 2, 343 (1867). Masters in Gard. 

 Chron. n. ser. XIII. 212, fig. 41, 43 (1880); in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 508, fig. 7-9 

 (1881). Hennings in Gartenfl. XXXVIII. 216, t.40, fig. 1, b-f (1889). Kent in 

 Veitch, Man. Conif. ed. 2, 429 (1900). Matsumura, Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 1, 12 

 (1905). Clinton-Baker, III. Conif. II. 35, t. (1909). Hayata, Veget. Mt. Fuji, 

 93 (1911). 



Pinus Alcoquiana Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 417 (1868). 



Abies acicularis Maximowicz in Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 74 (name only) (1868). 



Abies excelsa, var. acicularis Hort. ex Masters in Gard. Chron. n. ser. XIII. 212 (as a 

 synonym) (1880). 



Picea acicularis Beissner, Handb. Nadelh. 380 (1891). 



Picea bicolor, var. reflexa Shirasawa & Koyama in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXVII. 129, 

 t. 11, fig. 9-17 (1913). Shirasawa in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. XXIII. 255, fig. 

 9-17 (1914); in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, LVIII. 99, t. 36, fig. 9-17 (1915). 



Picea bicolor, var. acicularis Shirasawa & Koyama in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXVII. 129, 

 t. 11, fig. 1-8 (1913). Shirasawa in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. XXIII, 254, fig. 

 1-8 (1914); in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, LVIII. 98, t. 36, fig. 1-8 (1915). 



I met with this Spruce only on the slopes of Fuji-san where I saw but few trees 

 and none more than 26 m. tall and 3 m. in girth of trunk, the majority of them 

 being much weather worn. In the ascent from Subashiri on the east side and in that 

 from Yoshida on the north, between 900 and 1600 m., there are scattered trees and 

 here and there small groups of this Spruce, but it is far from common. It grows in 

 the zone represented by the upper limits of Abies homolepis S. & Z. and the lower 

 limits of Abies Veitchii Lindl. and in company with the much more common Picea 

 jezo'ensis Carr., Larix Kaempferi Sarg., Tsuga diversifolia Mast, and such broad- 

 leaved trees as Quercus mongolica, var. grosseserrata Rehd. and Wils., Belula grossa 

 S. & Z., B. Ermanii Cham., Alnus hirsuta, var. sibirica Schneid., Sorbus commixta 

 Hedl. and Prunus Maximouriczii Rupr. I had specimens collected for me on 

 Yatsuga-dake on the borders of Kai and Shinano provinces, where it is said to grow 



