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PICEA 



P. POLITA, Carriere. TlGER-TAIL SPRUCE. 



A lofty tree in Japan ; in cultivation a small pyramidal tree of very stiff 

 habit ; branches rigid and densely clothed with leaves ; young shoots not 

 downy, pale and yellowish the first year ; terminal buds conical, shining 

 brown, with closely appressed scales. Leaves set all round the shoot except for 



PICEA POLITA. 



an open V-shaped' groove beneath ; they are if ins. long, -^ in. wide ; diamond- 

 shaped in cross-section, very rigid, somewhat curved," spine-tipped ; dark 

 glossy green, with four to seven faint lines of stomata on all four surfaces. 

 Cones 2^r to 4 ins. long, ij to if ins. wide before opening ; brown when mature ; 

 scales minutely toothed. 



Native of Japan ; introduced by J. G. Veitch in i86f. This spruce is 



