Picea 13^9 



PICEA GLEHNII 



Picea Glehnii, Masters, in Gard. Chron. xiii. 300, fig. 54 (1880), and in Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.), 

 xviii. 512, fig. 13 (1881); Mayr, Abiet. Jap. Reiches, 56, 102, t. 4, fig. 11 (1890), and 

 Fremdldnd. Wald- u. Parkbaume, 327 (1906); Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 437 (1900); 

 Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. Forest. Japan, ii. t. 3, figs. 19-42 (1907); Clinton-Baker, Illust. Conif. ii. 



39 (i909)- 

 Abies Glehnii, Schmidt, in Mint. Acad. Imp. Sc. Si. Piter sb. xii. 176, t. 4 (1868). 



A tree, attaining in Yezo over 100 ft. in height. Bark different from any of 

 the other spruces, reddish in colour, and Assuring into broad thin loose plates. 

 Young branchlets slender, reddish, with dense short pubescence in the furrows 

 between the pulvini, not spreading over the surface of the latter. Buds ovoid, 

 brown, \ in. long, composed of a few glabrous scales ; terminal buds girt with a ring 

 of scales ending in long subulate points. Leaves arranged on the branchlets as in 

 P. excelsa, ^ to ^ in. long, slender, ending in a short cartilaginous point ; rhombic 

 in section, with about two stomatic lines on each of the two upper sides, and a single 

 line on each of the lower sides. 



Cones, about 2 in. long by i in. in diameter when closed ; violet, with a red 

 edge to the scales when growing, shining brown when ripe ; cylindrical, with an 

 obtuse narrowed apex ; scales, when ripe, spreading from the axis at a right angle, 

 suborbicular, with a cuneate claw, about \ in. wide, with the thin upper margin entire, 

 slightly erose, or faintly denticulate ; bract spatulate, \ in. long, denticulate at the 

 apex. Seed blackish, \ in. long, with wing f in. long ; wing broadest about the 

 middle, rounded at the apex, outer margin denticulate. 



This species is readily distinguishable from the other short-leaved spruces by 

 the reddish branchlets, with the pubescence confined to the furrows. It resembles 

 P. orientalis in the colour of the foliage, but is very distinct in the terminal buds, 

 which have a ring of subulate scales, similar to P nigra and P. rubra. 



Distribution 



P. Glehnii'^ was discovered in Saghalien in 1861 by Glehn, the comrade of 

 F. Schmidt on the expedition sent out by the Russian Geographical Society to 

 Eastern Asia. It was subsequently found in Yezo by Maries in 1877. 



In Saghalien, this species is confined to the southern half of the island, where it 

 grows on the plains and in the valleys, never attaining, according to Schmidt, a great 

 size, being seldom over a foot in girth. According to Mayr, it is probably absent 

 from the Kurile Isles,^ as it was not noticed by him on Shikotan ; according to 

 Komarov,^ it does not occur in Russian Manchuria. (A. H.) 



> The Formosan spruce, identified with P. Glehnii by Matsumura in Tokyo Bot. Mag. xv. 141 (1901), is quite distinct, 

 and has been named P. morrisonicola, Hayata, va. Journ. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, xxv. 220 (1908). 



« Miyabe does not include it in his Flora of the Kuriles. ' Flora Manshuria, i. 200 (1901). 



