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prolific in fibrous roots, and less so in shoots and leaves, they may be kept 

 in the nursery, by frequent transplanting, till they attain a much larger size. 

 The most convenient time for planting them where they are finally to remain 

 is after they have been two years in the seed-bed, and one year transplanted ; 

 and the operation should never be performed but in mild weather, and when 

 the air is somewhat moist. 



i 2. A. orientaYis Tourn. The Oriental Spruce Fir. 



Identification. Tourn. Cor., 41 



Synonymes. Ptnus orientalis Lin. Sp. PZ. 1421., Lamb. Pin. ed. 2. 1. t. 39. ; Pkeaorientalis 7,mA, 



and Steven in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mos. 1833. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 39. ; and our^gx. 1924. and 192-5. 



Spec. Char., c^c. Leaves solitary, sub-quadrangular. Cones cylindrical ; scales 

 broader than long, rhomboid ovate, rounded at the apex, sub-entire. (Steven.) 

 Leaves half as long as those of yJ'bies excelsa, and, like them, quadrangular, 

 acute, but not pungent ; neither are they two rowed, as Tournefort states, 



but cover the branches on all sides, as in 

 the common spruce. Cones 3 in., long, 

 subcylindrical; scales 

 more laxly imbri- 

 cated as the seeds 

 ripen, inferior broad- 

 ly rounded, superior 

 somewhat acute. A 

 lofty tree. Tauria 

 and Caucasus, on the 

 loftiest mountains of 

 Imeretia, and fre- 1924. ^. orientkus. 

 quent in Upper Mingrelia, especially in the 

 neighbourhood of churches, and forming 



1925. A. orientals. 



whole forests between Guriel and the 



Adshar mountains. (Gard. Mag., 1839, 



p. 227.) 



Described by Lambert, after Tournefort, and 

 from dried specimens ; but cones with fertile 

 seeds do not appear to have been introduced 

 till ? 1 837. Of late many plants have been 

 raised in Knight's Exotic Nursery, from seeds 

 received from Mingrelia and the neighbourhood 

 of Teflis. 



t 3. A. obova'ta D. Don MS. The obovate- 

 leaved Spruce Fir. 



Synonyme. Picra obovata Lerf. Icon. PI. Fl. Ross. t. 500. 

 Engravings. 0\xr fig. 1926. and 1927. from Ledebnur. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves arranged in many 

 series, curved upwards. Cones erect, cylindri- 

 cal. Scales abruptly dilated from the cuneate 

 base into a quadrangular lamina, broader 

 towards the point. Bracteas somewhat 

 quadrangular, mucronate, not half the length 



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1926. .<.obovkt.i. 



