32 ABIES, OR 



No. 20. Abies Tsuga, Siebold, the Japan Hemlock Spruce. 

 Syn. Pinus Tsuga, Antoine. 

 Araragi, Siebold. 



Tsuga Sieboldii, Carriers. 

 Micropeuce Sieboldii, Spach. 

 Abies diversifolia, Hort. 

 Araragi, Loudon. 



Hanburyana, Hort. 



Leaves solitary, somewhat two-rowed, thickly set on the 

 branches, frequently alternate, lower ones reflected, and on short, 

 round foot-stalks ; they are flat, slightly linear, and tapering to 

 an obtuse (rarely acute) point, entire on the edges, smooth, dark 

 shining, green above, ribbed, and marked beneath with two 

 white glaucous bands. Branches numerous, irregularly spread- 

 ing, and drooping at the ends. Branchlets slender, recurved, and 

 irregularly furnished with small buds. Cones very small, soli- 

 tary, terminal on the ends of the branchlets, one inch long, and 

 three-quarters of an inch broad, elliptic, blunt-pointed, and 

 remaining on the tree after the seeds have fallen out. Scales 

 permanent, imbricated, 20 or 30 in number, leathery, shut 

 close, largest in the middle, slender at the base, partially 

 rounded or obtuse on the apex, thin, and of a shining pale 

 brown colour. Bracteas very short, hardly longer than the 

 foot-stalk of the scale, narrow, truncate, and irregularly bifid. 

 Seeds very small, with thin membraneous wings. 



A large tree, from 80 to 100 feet high, with the appearance 

 and habit of the Hemlock Spruce (Abies Canadensis), but with 

 the timber of a yellowish colour, and much valued by the 

 Japanese. 



It is found in the northern provinces of Japan, on the moun- 

 tains of " Matsu " and " Dewar," at an elevation of G000 feet, 

 and on the sacred mountain, "Fusi-Yama," whiclris the highest 

 mountain in Japan (14,000 feet), and whose sides are covered 

 with dense pine forests, chiefly composed of this kind, to an 

 elevation of 8000 or 9000 feet. 



