42 Illustrations of Conifers. 



PICEA OBOVATA (Ledebour). SIBERIAN SPRUCE. 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. Z, p. 441 (1900). 



A TREE allied to the Norway Spruce and by some authorities considered 

 a variety of it. It attains a height of 100 feet or more. Branchlets 

 ashy -grey, with scattered minute glandular pubescence. Buds conic, 

 about J inch long, with chestnut-brown scales. Leaves similar to 

 those of P. excelsa. 



Cones 3 - 4 inches long, cylindrical, shining brown when ripe ; 

 scales with entire truncate margins. Seed inch long with narrow 

 long wing. 



Picea obovata occurs over a very wide area in north-east Russia 

 and Siberia. 



A young plant of the Siberian Spruce was added to the Bayford- 

 bury collection in 1906. 



The illustration represents a branch with cones brought from 

 Siberia by Mr. C. F. H. Leslie in 1908. Seedlings were raised from 

 these cones the same year. 



