44 CONIFERS AND TAXADS OF JAPAN 



In Japan P. bicolor is known as Iramomi. It is seldom cultivated in Japanese 

 gardens and is very rare 1 in the gardens of Europe and North America. In eastern 

 North America the few examples known are thriving better than those of any other 

 Japanese Spruce. In the Hunnewell Pinetum there are growing several fine speci- 

 mens of P. bicolor, the largest of which is 13 m. tall, with a trunk 1 m. in girth and 

 a 12 m. spread of branches. Another is 11 m. tall, with a trunk 1.4 m. in girth and 

 has a 13 m. spread of branches. 



In regard to the name of this Spruce there has never been any doubt that 

 Veitch, when he discovered it in 1860, intended to name a new Spruce for Sir 

 Rutherford Alcock, but unfortunately the material he sent home came from 

 trees belonging to two distinct species and the description of Abies Alcoqulana 

 drawn from it by Lindley covers both. Murray's figures show that the leaves are 

 those of Picea jezoensis and the cone that of a quite different species, and of this 

 species Maximowicz in 1866 gives a good description under the name of A. bicolor. 

 Carriere's description of his P. Alcockiana in 1867 is correct, but Maximowicz's 

 specific name is a year older and has priority. Masters in 1880 clearly separated 

 the two species confused by Veitch and Lindley; more recently Henry and 

 Diimmer have both examined the type specimen of A. Alcoquiana Veitch apud 

 Lindley and state that it consists of "leaves of P. hondoensis and the cones 2 of 

 P. bicolor." 



Picea bicolor was not only first discovered by John Gould Veitch, but was also 

 first introduced into Europe by him in 1861, but unfortunately the seeds were mixed 

 with those of P. jezoensis Carr. In 1865 Tschonoski, Maximowicz's Japanese 

 collector, sent seeds to Petrograd, and these were distributed by Regel under the 

 name of P. japonica. In 1868 Tschonoski sent more seeds to Petrograd, and these 

 were distributed as Abies acicularis Maxim. 



PICEA JEZOENSIS Carr. 



PLATES XXVII AND XXVIII 



PICEA JEZOENSIS Carriere, Traite Conif. 255 (1855). Beissner, Handb. Nadelh 

 389 (1891). Sargent, SUva N. Am. XII. 21 (1898). Rehder in Bailey, Stand 

 Cycl. Hort. V. 2620 (1916). 



Abies jezoensis Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 19, t. 110 (1842). Murray in 

 Proc. Hort. Soc. Lond. II. 496, fig. 119-126, 128 (1862); Pines & Firs Jap. 72, fig. 

 137-144, 146 (1863). Veitch, Man. Conif. 72 (1881). 



Pinus jezoensis Antoine, Conif. 97, t. 37, fig. 1 (1847). 



Abies ajanensis Knight & Perry, Syn. Conif. (Errata, name only) (1850?). Ru- 

 precht & Maximowicz in Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XV. 140 

 (1857). Ruprecht & Maack in Bull. Phys.-Math. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XV. 

 382 (1857). F. Schmidt in Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 7, XII. no. 2, 

 177 (Reis. Amur. Sachal.) (1868). 



Abies ajonensis Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. V. 212 (name only) (1850). 



Picea Ajanensis Fischer apud Carriere, Traite Conif. 259 (1855). Trautvetter & 

 Meyer in Middendorff, Reis. Sibir. I. pt. 2, Bot. abt. 2, 87 (Fl. Ochot.) (1856). - 

 Regel & Tiling, Fl. Ajan. 119 (1858). Maximowicz in Mem. Sav. tr. Acad. Sci. 



1 The Spruce cultivated in most gardens in Great Britain as P. Alcockiana is P. jezoensis Carr. 

 * Diimmer says "cone-scales." 



