PICEA PUNGEXS. 



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abundant, it is generally scattered along the mountain streams of 

 Colorado and eastern Utah and northwards to those of the Wind Kiver 

 mountains of Wyoming." * 



Fig. 111. Picea pungens glauc<<. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



This handsome Spruce Fir was discovered on Pike's Peak in Colorado 

 by Dr. Parry in 1862, at the same time as P. Enc/elmanni, and was 

 probably introduced with that species with which it is still confused in 

 many gardens. It is unquestionably the most beautiful of all Spruce 

 Firs for garden decoration, a distinction it owes to the remarkable 

 glaueescence of its foliage which, however, varies much in intensity in 

 different seedlings, but when most heightened is of a silvery greyish 



Silva of North America, XII. 48. 



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