raised in the Chismc'k Garden since Oct. 1838. 9 



Pinus Hartweg//, P. Devon/awa, P. Russellm??^, P. macro- 

 phylla, P. Pseudo-iStrobus, and P. apulcensis being entirely new- 

 species, are fully, both botanically and otherwise, described by 

 Dr. Lindley, in the Botanical Register for August, 1839, p. 62. 

 [By permission of the council of the Horticultural Society, we 

 have had drawings taken of all the above specimens ; and, as soon 

 as they are engraved we shall publish them in an article supple- 

 mentary to our Arboretum Britannicum, similar to that given in 

 our preceding Volume, p. 118. and 236.] 



A^bies orientdlis Gard. Mag. vol. xv. p. 225. This is a very 

 pretty and rather slender dwarf spruce, very like some of the 

 varieties of the ^^bies alba, or white American spruce, but 

 decidedly not a variety of the common spruce, as supposed by 

 some. The Society received a plant about four years back from 

 Dr. Fischer, and also some seeds from the Hon. W. F. Strang- 

 ways, and lately a plant of the true A. orientalis from Mr. Joseph 

 Knight, F.H.S., all of which, I think, proves that it is only 

 a variety of, or a nearly related species to, the white American 

 spruce, and not to the common spruce. 



Pkea religibsa H. et B., Arb. Brit. p. 2349. The seeds of this 

 beautiful fir, the pride of the Mexicans, have at last been intro- 

 duced by M. Hartweg, who transmitted to the Society a large 

 quantity of the cones, and it will now soon become common in all 

 good collections. The leaves are, according to the specimens sent 

 along with the seeds, about the size and shape of those of A. Dou- 

 glaszV, but rather glaucous on the under side.' The cones are about 

 the size and shape of those of the cedar of Lebanon [whence we 

 conclude it to be a Picea, not an ^%ies], but longer. It is the 

 oyamel fir of the Mexicans, and is used for adorning their 

 churches on the days of their saints, and hence the name. It 

 was found by M. Hartweg on the mountains of Anganguco, at 

 an elevation of 8000 or 9000 feet, attaining an immense size, 

 5 or 6 feet in diameter, and about 150 ft. high. He says it will 

 prove quite hardy, and a very valuable timber tree. The seeds 

 have grown tolerably well. 



'Picea Pinsapo, Gard. Mag. vol. xv. p. 109. 187. 238. and 

 339. This, I think, is very nearly, if not identically, the same 

 as A. cephalonica. It was first sent to the Society in the autumn 

 of 1837, by Professor DeCandolle, as the Mount Atlas cedar or 

 P. Pinsapo ; and last year by Mons. Vilmorin of Paris, as y^^bies 

 Pinsapo. I have raised some hundreds of both A. cephalonica 

 and Pinsapo, and I cannot see any distinction. 



Cupressi'ne^. — Thuja Warekva Booth Cat. This plant 

 seems not distinct from T. orientalis tatarica Arb. Brit. vol. iv. 

 p. 2459. It was received from the Messrs. Booth. 



Cupressus thiirifera Bot Reg. Miscel. 101. 1839. The seeds 

 from which this species was raised in the garden of the Society 



