434 PICEA EXCELSA. - 



var. Finedonensis. 



This shows an unusual change of colour in the young shoots and 

 foliage which, when first developed, are pale yellow, afterwards gradually 

 changing to yellowish brown and finally assuming the normal green of 

 the species. 



P. excelsa Finedonensis, Beissner. Nadelholzk, 367. Abies excelsa Finedonensis, 

 Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 9. A. Finedonensis, Hort. 



var. Gregoryana. 



A diminutive variety seldom growing more than 1 2 feet high, with 

 numerous small spreading branches and branchlets thickly clothed with 

 short stiff leaves spreading obliquely from all sides. 



P. excelsa Gregoryana, Beissner, Nadelholzk. 364. Abies excelsa Gregoryana, 

 Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 9. 



var, inverta. 



A pendulous variety in which the lateral branchlets droop like those 

 of Picea Smithiana, and which are clothed with larger, longer leaves 

 of a lighter green than those of the common Spruce.'* 



P. excelsa inverta, Beissner, Nadelholzk. 361. Abies excelsa inverta, Gordon, 

 Pinet. ed. II. 9. 



var. monst rosa. 



A remarkable variety in which the energy of the plant appears to 

 be expended in the formation of the principal branches at the expense 

 of the lateral branchlets. The branches are long and straggling, 

 almost without laterals, and clothed with bristly leaves usually longer 

 and stouter than those of the common form. 



P (Abies) excelsa monstrosa, London, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2295. P. excelsa 

 denudata, Caniere, Rev. Hort. (1854), p. 102. with fig. P. excelsa viminalis, 

 Caspary ex Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXVII. 282. Gartenflora (1887), p. 521. 

 Abbild, 128. Schlangenfichte of German gardens. 



var. mutabilis. 



This is a modification of var. Finedonensis. The young shoots are at 

 first light yellow which soon changes to golden yellow, and this 

 again to the normal green of the species by the end of the first 

 season. Other coloured forms have been named aurea, argentea, 



variegata. 



P. excelsa mutabilis, P. excelsa aurea, etc , Hovt. ; and Beissner, Nadelholzk. 367- 



var. pendula. 



As distinguished from inverta, the primary branches are produced at 

 irregular intervals, and with their appendages hang downwards at a 

 greater or less distance from the trunk. 



P. (Abies) excelsa pendula, Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2294 Beissner, 

 Nadelholzk. 360. Weeping Spruce Fir. 



var. pumila. 



A dwarf variety of conical habit, with much shortened branches and 

 branchlets clothed with dark green glaucescent foliage ; the leaves 

 spread from all sides of the branchlets. 



P. excelsa pumila, Hort. Abies pumila glauca, Hort. A. pumila nigra, Hort. 



* This curious deviation from the type was first detected by Mr. R. Smith Carrington in 

 a plantation near Kinlet Hall, Shropshire. The Garden,- XXV. (1884), p. 229. 



