216 PICEA, OR 



tain chain called Bulgardah, in Cilicia, at an elevation of from 

 3000 to 7000 feet above the sea, mostly in immense forests, 

 or intermixed with the cedar of Lebanon. The Mongolians 

 call it * Chadsura" (green and white), and the late Dr. Fischer 

 considered it only a variety of the Siberian Pitch Fir (Picea 

 Pichta), a kind which it certainly very much resembles, but 

 differs from in having very much longer cones, and leaves more 

 silvery beneath. 



It is quite hardy, and called " Tchugatskoy " (strong- scented 

 Fir) by the Russians. 



No. 15. Picea concolor, Gordon, the Concolor-leaved 



Silver Fir. 



Syn. Pinus concolor, Pavlatore. 

 Abies concolor, Lindley. 



Leaves closely placed, somewhat two-rowed, and the same 

 colour on both surfaces; they are linear, flat, leathery, and 

 either slightly falcate or straight, more or less obtuse at the 

 points, of a whitish colour when young, pale green when old, 

 and from one and a half to two inches long and one line broad. 

 Cones solitary, erect, nearly sessile, oblong, rounded at the 

 ends, and from two inches and a quarter to two and three-quar- 

 ters long, and from one inch and a quarter to one and a half 

 broad. Scales almost horizontal, closely placed, a little turned 

 up at the edges, transversely elliptic, with the margins rounded 

 and nearly entire. Bracteas, shorter than the scales and hidden. 

 Seeds soft and angularly wedge-shaped, with thin, broad," per- 

 sistent, and somewhat four-sided wings. 



A magnificent tree, with horizontal branches in regular 

 whorls, found on the Santa Fe mountains, in New Mexico, by 

 Fendler, and on the Rio de los Animos, in Southern California, 

 by Engelmann. 



No. 16. Picea grandis, Loudon, the Great Californian Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Pinus grandis, Douglas, 



