206 PICEA, OE 



PiCEA Feaseri glauca, Wm. Paul, the Glaucous Double 

 Balsam Fir. 



This is a fine, robust variety, with the leaves thickly placed 

 all round the shoots, and of a beautiful silvery white beneath. 



There are plants of this handsome variety in Mr. Wm. 

 Paul's nurserj^ at Waltham Cross. 



PiCEA Feaseei Hudsonica, Knight, the Hudson's Bay 

 Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Picea Fraseri Hudsonica, Loudon. 

 „ „ Hudsonica, Hort. 

 „ „ balsamea prostrata, Knight. 

 „ Abies Hudsonica, Bosc. 

 ,, „ Fraseri nana, Hort. 

 ,, „ balsamea prostrata, Knight. 

 This is a very dwarf variety, not growing more than three 

 or four feet high, but forming a dense, close bush with a flat top. 

 It is found in the Hudson Bay Company's territory in North 

 America. 



No. 8. Picea holophylla, Qordon, the Mandschurian Silver 



Fir. 

 Syn. Pinus holophylla, Parlatore. 

 „ Abies holophylla, Maximowicz. 



Leaves crowded, and somewhat arranged in two rows, short, 

 rigid, straight, or slightly curved, linear and flat, with a narrow 

 furrow along the upper surface, and striped on both sides of 

 the prominent keel on the under side with white, and three 

 quarters of an inch long, and nearly one line broad; petiole 

 dilated and a little twisted. Cones solitary, oblong-cylindrical 

 and erect on the upper side of the branches. Scales resinous, 

 broadly-dilated, rounded, and entire on the margins, and three 

 quarters of an inch long and one inch wide; bracts ovate, 

 toothed on the edges, abruptly pointed, and much longer than 

 the scales. Seeds soft, angularly wedge-shaped, and full of 

 turpentine. Wings somewhat quadrilateral, persistent, and of 

 a yellowish colour. 



