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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



505. ; A. vulgaris Pair. Diet. Encyc., 6. p. 514.: A. pectin&ta Dec. Fl. Fr., 2. p. 275., N. Du 

 Ham^ 5. p. 294. ; A. texifolia Hort. Par. ; A. Picea Lindl. in Penn. Cyc., No. 1. ; A. excelsa 

 Link Abhand., &c., jahr 1827, p. 182. ; Spanish Fir ; Sapin commun, Sapin S Feuilles d'lf, Sapin 

 blanc, Sapin argent^, Sapin en Peigne, Sapin de Normandie, Fr. ; weiss Tanne, Edeltannc, Gcr. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 40 ; 



223? 



Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur., 3. ; App., 

 t. 13. f. 29. 44. : Pall. Ross., 1. t. I. f. 

 F. ; Woodv. Med. Bot., t. 209. : Reit. 

 und Abel. Abb., t. 98. ; N. Du Ham., 

 5. t. 82.; our fig. 2237. of the natural 

 size, and fig. 2238. to our usual scale ; 

 and the plates of this species in our 

 last Volume. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves soli- 

 tary, flat, obtuse; 2-ranked, 

 with their points turned up. 

 Cones axillary, cylindrical, 

 erect; scales with a long 

 dorsal bractea. Anthers with 

 a short crest, with two teeth. 

 (Z/oe's.) Buds short, egg- 

 shaped, blunt; of a reddish 

 yellow, with from 16 to 20 

 blunt scales. Leaves from 

 A in. to 1 in. long, stiff, turned 

 up at the points; of a shining 

 dark green above, and with 

 two lines of silvery white on 

 each side of the midrib be- 

 neath. Cones from 6 in. to 

 8 in. long, and from 1| in. to 

 2 in. broad; cylindrical; green 

 when young, afterwards red- 

 dish, and, when ripe, brown. 

 Scale | in. to 1 in. long, and 

 1 J in. broad. Seeds variously 

 angular, f in. long, and T 3 F in. 

 broad. Cotyledons 5. The 

 blossoms appear in May, and 

 the cones are matured in the 

 October of the folio wing year. 



Varieties. 



1 P. p. 2 tortuosa Booth has 

 the branches and 

 branchlets remarkably 

 twisted or crooked. 

 There is a plant in 

 Messrs. Loddiges's ar- 

 boretum 3 ft. high, 

 f P. p. Sfoliis vaiiegdtis has 

 the leaves variegated. 

 There is a fine plant 

 of this variety, about 

 4ft. high, in the col- 

 lection of the Rev. 

 Theodore Williams, 

 at Hendon ; and the 

 lower branch of a 

 large tree at White 



Knights has become variegated, from which we have brought cut- 

 tings, and presented them to the Horticultural Society, and to the 

 Hammersmith and Fulham Nurseries. 



