482 PINE FAMILY. 



# * SILVER FIRS, very choice ornamental exotic trees. 

 *- Leaves blunt. 



A. pectinata, DC. EUROPEAN SILVER FIR. Large tree having slender 

 horizontal branches with narrow leaves (greener above than in Balsam F., 

 nearly as white beneath, and !' long) forming a flat spray ; cones 6'-8' 

 long, cylindrical, with slender projecting points to the bracts. 



A. Nordmanniana, Spach. Caucasus ; with thicker-set and broader, 

 more glossy leaves than the foregoing, linear, curved, 1' long, deep green 

 above and whitened beneath ; cones large and ovate (o'-C' long) ; branches 

 rigid and horizontal, very leafy. 



A. Sibirica, Ledeb. (A. P^CKTA). SIBERIAN SILVER F. With thicker- 

 set leaves than those of European Silver Fir, dark-green above and less 

 white beneath ; cones only 3' long, their short bracts concealed under the 

 scales. 



H- - Leaves acute or pointed, especially on main shoots, rigid, widely and 

 about equally spreading on both sides. 



A. Cephaldnica, Link. CEPHALONIAN SILVER FIR. Remarkable for its 

 very stiff, almost prickly-pointed, squarrose, close-set leaves, dark-green 

 above, white beneath ; cones 5'-6' long, like those of A. pectinata. 

 Greece, etc. 



A. Pinsapo, Boiss. SPANISH SILVER FIR. Resembles the last, but not 

 so hardy, with leaves less pointed, and the bracts of the cones concealed ; 

 cones cylindrical, 4'-5' long. Spain. 



6. CEDRUS, CEDAR, i.e. of Lebanon. (Ancient Greek name.) Wood 

 reddish, fragrant. Cult, for ornament, but precarious in this climate. 



C. Libani, Barrel. CEDAR or LEBANON. With dark foliage and stiff 

 horizontal branches, the terminal shoot erect ; cones 3'-4' long, peduncled, 

 oblong-oval, maturing the second (or third ?) year ; not hardy. 



C. Deodara, Loud. DEODAR C. Of Himalayas ; with lighter drooping 

 spray on young trees, and larger whitish leaves. Somewhat planted S. ; 

 now considered to be only a form of the first. 



7. LARIX, LARCH. (The ancient name.) Trees planted for orna- 

 ment and valuable for timber ; branches slender, the young ones pendu- 

 lous ; flowers in earliest spring, much before the leaves appear ; catkins 

 from lateral spurs or broad buds ; the sterile globular, yellow ; the 

 fertile oval, crimson-red, being the color of the bracts. The commonest 

 ones described here. Others are in cultivation. 



L. Europcea, DC. EUROPEAN LARCH. A fine fast-growing tree, with 

 leaves about 1' long, and cones 1' long, of numerous scales. There is a 

 weeping form. 



L. Americana, Michx. AMERICAN LARCH, TAMARACK or HACKMA- 

 TACK. Swamps N. ; slender tree with shorter and paler leaves, and small 

 cones of few scales, only \* or ' long. 



8. CRYPTOMERIA. (From the Greek, means concealed parts or 

 joints.} Evergreen tree from Japan. 



C. Japdnica, D.Don. Often in conservatories and in the open from 

 Long Island (sparingly), S. ; leaves crowded, awl-shaped, many-ranked, 

 edgewise and decurrent on the stem. 



