Picea 



1337 



** 



Terminal buds without long subulate scales. 

 I Z- Picea orientalis, CdxnhvQ. Asia Minor, Caucasus. See p. 1362. 



Branchlets slender, pale brown, covered with dense short non -glandular 

 pubescence. Leaves, | to | in. long, shining dark green, blunt and bevelled 

 at the tip. 



14. Picea Engelmanni, Engelmann. Western North America. See p. 1387. 



Branchlets greyish yellow, with a sparse minute glandular pubescence. 

 Leaves disagreeable in odour when bruised, bluish green, | to i in. long. 



15. Picea obovata, Ledebour. Northern Scandinavia, Russia, Siberia; sporadic 



at high altitudes in the mountains of Central Europe, See p. 1359. 

 Branchlets reddish brown, covered with a dense minute non -glandular 

 pubescence. Leaves, f to f in. long, short-pointed, with three to four 

 stomatic lines on each side. 



PICEA EXCELSA, Common Spruce 



Ficea excelsa, Link, in Linnaa, xv. 517 (1841); Willkomm, Forsil. Flora, 67 (1887); Mathieu. 



Flore Forestiire, 540 (1897); Ascherson and Graebner, Syn. Mittekurop. Flora, i. ig6 (1897); 



Schroter, in Vierteljahrs. Naturf. Ges. Zurich, xliii, 125-252 (1898); Kent, Veitch's Man. 



Conif. 432 (1900); Kirchner, Loew and Schroter, Lebengesch. Bliitenpfl. Mitteleuropas, 99 (1904); 



Clinton-Baker, Illust. Conif. ii. 38 (1909). 

 Picea rubra, Dietrich,^ Fl. Berol. 795 (1824). 



Picea vulgaris. Link, in Abhand. Akad. Berlin, 1827, p. 180 (1830). 

 Picea Abies, Karsten, Pharm. Med. Bat. 324 (1881). 

 Pinus Abies, Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 1002 (1753). 

 Pinus Picea, Du Roi, Obs. Bot. 37 (1771) (not Linnsus). 

 Pinus excelsa, Lamarck, Fl. Franc, ii. 202 (1778). 

 Abies Picea, Miller, Diet., 8th ed., No. 3 (1768). 

 Abies excelsa, De CandoUe, in Lamarck, Fl. Franc, iii. 275 (1805); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. 



iv. 2293 (1838). 

 Abies carpatica, Lawson, Pinet. Brit. ii. 137, t. 20 (1867). 



A tree, often attaining in Britain 120 to 140 ft. in height and 10 to 12 ft. in girth, 

 in central Europe attaining 200 ft. high and 15 to 20 ft. in girth. Bark on young 

 stems brownish, thin, smooth ; on older trees thick, and scaling off on the surface in 

 thin small scales. Young branchlets, reddish or yellowish brown, glabrous or with 

 a minute scattered non-glandular pubescence, often confined to the furrows between 

 the pulvini. Buds conical, acute, reddish brown, without resin, with rounded 

 scarious scales ; terminal bud girt with a few acuminate keeled pubescent ciliate 

 scales. 



Leaves on erect shoots radially spreading, more or less appressed to the twigs 

 with their tips directed upwards : on lateral branches, pectinate below, the lower side 

 of the twig being laid bare, most of the leaves being directed forwards and outwards ; 

 while on the upper side of the twig, the leaves in the middle line are more or less 



• Dietrich's name and description apply to the common European spruce, and not to the American red spruce, as is often 

 erroneously supposed. 



