Tum tertia pars Eiir: colit, ceterse per orbem sparsa3 

 prsesertim in Amer: bor: 5 plerjeque extricatu diflGciles 

 ob maximam inter se sirailitudinem. Abies et La- 

 rix pro distinctis generibus a nonnullis Auctoribus 

 receptse vix differunt a Pino ,• sc; in Pino. amenta 

 mascula racemosa, strobuli squamse oblongce clavaice 

 apice dorso umbilicatce , folia bina aut plurima ex 

 eadem vagina 5 in Abiete amenta mascula solitaria , 

 strobuli squamse tenues apice rotundatce nec umbili- 

 catce , folia solitaria ex vagina communi 5 in Larice 

 omnia ut in Abiete , sed cotyledones integrce nec di- 

 gitato-partitce , folia caduca in primordio fasciculata 

 demum solitaria. Characteres isti ex cl: DC. deprom- 

 pti mihi satis visi non sunt ut distincta genera ad- 

 mitterentur et sic strictissirase affinitates disrumpe- 

 rentur, satius credens, exemplo L., W. et Spk:, ex 

 principali foliorum disposilione et figura, retento solo 

 Pini genere , ipsum dividere. Cons: inter alios cl: 

 Lamberti eximium opus, cui titulus Descript: qf the 

 genus Pinus. Lond: 181 3. 



I. Foliis solitariis (Abies DC). 



% \. P. Picea = L. sp: 1^10. non Du Roy = Spr: 

 syst: in. 884. = Duham: arb: I. t. 2. Abies Cam: 

 epit: 48- et 49- c. ic: Abies pectinata DC. fl: fr: n. 

 2o63. Vern: Pescia, Sapin, Sap (In Alpib: Eur: med: 

 et bor: Pedem: in alpinis et subalpinis All: n. 1946. 

 In sylvis supra la ISovalesa Re fi; segus: p. 80. In 

 alpib: Novariensib: abundans Biroli fl; acou; II. p. 

 126.). Arbor excelsa ramulis pectinalis , folia plana 



