44 SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUM. 



Gen, PICEA, Don, the Silver Firs. " 

 Pliny and the ancient writers originally called the Silver Fir 

 ^'Abies^' (which name may have been a corruption of Albus, 

 the leaves of the Silver Fir being white when seen from below), 

 but which name Linnaeus afterwards changed to that of Picea, 

 on account of the abundance of resinous matter produced by 

 the tree. Again, more recently Professor Link proposed the 

 restoration of its older name, under that of Abies vera ; a sug- 

 gestion which has been followed by nearly all the continental 

 writers, but rejected by those in England and America ; hence 

 the reverse of names applied to the Silver Firs and Spruces, on 

 the continent, to those used in this country and America. 



Section I. BRACTEATA — or those kinds with the bracteas 

 extended beyond the scales on the cones. 



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 PiCEA ApoLLiNis, Ranch, the Apollo Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Picea Cephalonica Apollinis, Gordon. 



,, Abies Apollinis, Link. 



„ „ pectinata Apollinis, Endlicher. 



„ „ Regiuae Amaliae, Heldreich, 



J, „ Peloponnesiaca, German Gardens, 



„ Pinus Apollinis, Antoine. 



,, „ Orientalis, Friwaldsky, not Linnaeus. 



„ „ Peloponnesiaca, Haage. 

 This kind agrees in several respects both with the common 

 Silver Fir (Picea pectinata), with which Professor Endlicher 

 associated it in his " Synopsis Coniferarum,^^ and the Cepha- 

 lonian Fir (Picea Cephalonica) with which I myself identified 

 it in the " Pinetum,^^ and with which kind it entirely agrees 

 both in its cones and habit of growth, but differs more or 

 less in the shape and size of its leaves, which appear to be 

 nearly intermediate between those of the two species, some of 

 the leaves being long, linearj flat, and more or less rounded at 

 the ends, and of a glossy deep green above, with a slight furrow 



