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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



1933. 



1 

 A. D. (axifolia. 



and at Dropmore. Fig. 

 1933. is from a sketch of 

 the mode of ramification 

 and of the foliage of a 

 tree named A. /axifolia in 

 the Edinb. Bot. Garden, 

 raised from seeds received 

 from the late Mr. Thos. 

 Drummond, after the arctic 

 expedition. It is, Mr. M' 

 Nab observes, an upright- 

 growing tree ; and, with its 

 long and dark leaves, very 

 distinct from all the speci- 

 mens of A. DouglasH he 

 had seen. 



A large conical tree, with a rugged greyish brown bark, from 6 in. to 9 in. 

 thick, and abounding in balsamic resin. Leaves somewhat pectinate and 

 spreading, narrow-linear, obtuse on the margin and apex, quite entire, flat ; 

 dark green above, marked on the middle with a depressed line, and silvery 

 beneath ; 1 in. long. The bark, in young trees, has its receptacles filled with a 

 clear yellow resin, in the same manner as that of the balm of Gilead ; and 

 the bark of old trees is said to make excellent fuel. The timber is heavy, 

 firm, with few knots, about the same yellow colour as that of the yew, and 

 not in the least liable to warp. The rate of growth of this tree, in the climate 

 of London, appears to be nearly as great as that of the common spruce ; but, 

 as it has a tendency to send out a profusion of side branches, it does not 

 increase in height so much as it does in width and bushiness. 



^ 9. A. Menzie^s// Douglas. Menzics's, or the warted-brancht'd. Spruce Fir. 



Identification. Doiigl. 



MS., Liudl., in Penn. 



Cyc, 1. p. VI. 

 Synontjnie. Plnus Men- 



ziOs Lamb. Pin. 3. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., 



3. t. 89., and our fig. 



1934. from Lambert, 



and the seeds from 



specimens in the Hor- 

 ticultural Society's 



herbarium sent home 



by Douglas. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. 

 Leaves acute, 

 flat ; silvery be- 

 neath, turned in 

 every direction. 

 Cones cylindri- 

 cal ; scales scari- 

 ous, gnawed on 

 the margin. (79. 

 Don.) Leaves 

 3^ in. long. Cones 

 from 2J in. to 

 3 in. long, and 

 from I in. to Ijin. 

 broad; scales^ in. 

 long, and f in. 

 broad. Seed very 

 small, scarcely 

 J in. long ; with 

 llie wing, in. 'mi. .-i. srcM/iesn 



