PICEA 



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branchlets, which, perhaps, give it a somewhat funereal aspect. It is subject 

 to injury by spring frost especially in the young state, and will thrive best in 

 a situation shaded from early morning sun. It likes a moist, loamy soil. 



PlCEA MORINDOIDES. 



P. MORINDOIDF.S, Rehder. E. HIMALAYAN SPRUCE. 

 (Bot. Mag., t. 8169 ; P. spinulosa, A. Henry.") 



A tree of large size, over 200 ft. high, branches pendulous at the ends ; 

 young shoots pale, yellowish, without down. Leaves arranged all round the 

 shoot, most thinly underneath, the upper ones appressed to the branch and 



