PTCEA, OR TFIE SILVER EIRS. .)T) 



collections, under the misapplied name, (/ra/idis, OM'ing to Mr. 

 Lobb having transmitted a large quantity of its seeds to Messrs. 

 Low and Co., of the Clapton Nursery, under the wrong name, 

 from Upper California. It, howev'ei-, is easily distinguished, 

 even when in a young state, from the true Picea grandis, by its 

 very much longer leaves, which are of a dull or pale green on 

 the upper side, and with the two glaucous bands beneath, not 

 very distinctly marked ; the branches are also more regularly 

 placed in distant whorls round the stem, and the branchlcts. 

 more spreading, slender, regular, and much lighter coloured, 

 and not glossy like tliose of the true grandis when young. This 

 kind is sometimes misnamed Picea lasiocarpa, either through 

 ignorance or intention, and is quite hardy, never getting iu the 

 least injured, even by the late Spring frosts. 



It has been named in compliment to ^fessrs. Low, of the 

 Clapton Nursery, who introduced it so abundantly from Cali- 

 fornia. 



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Picea Pindrow, Loudon, the Upright Indian Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies densa, Griffith, in part. 

 „ Picea Herbertiana, Madden. 



The specific name, Pindrow, given to tltis Fir by Dr. Roj-le, 

 is derived from one of its native names, but which Major 

 Madden calls a " local and barbarxjus term,^' and proposes to 

 alter to that of Herbertiana, in compliment to the late Captain 

 Herbert, who had done so much for the natural history of the 

 Himalayas ; the rejection of which proposition, and the con- 

 tinuance of Koyle's crude name, can only be justified on account 

 of the Babylonian confusion that already exists among the 

 names given to Indian conifers, and which alone should re,con- 

 cile one to the name, however hard or barbarous. The Indian 

 term, " Pindrow," according to Major Madden, refers to its 

 very peculiar mode of growth, the tree being tall and cylin- 

 drical, or slightly tapering, like the Lombardy Poplar; but, 

 according to Dr. Wilson, it is derived frcJm the Sanscrit words, 

 " Pind,'^ incense, and '* Roo" or " Row," to weep, from the 



