208 PICBA, OR 



PiCEA NOEILIS GLAUCA, Hort 

 A splendid variety, with all the leaves of a beautiful silvery- 

 white colour. It is in the Nursery of Mr. Eichard Smith, of 

 Worcester. 



No. 10. PiCEA NoRDMANNiANA, Loudon, Professor Nord- 

 mann's Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies candicans, Fischer. 



„ „ pectinata leioclada, Link. 



„ „ Picea leioclada, Lindley. 

 „ leioclada, Steven. 



„ „ Nordmanniana, Link. 



„ Picea pectinata leioclada, Hort. 



„ Pinus Picea, Tournefort, not Willdenow. 



„ „ Nordmanniana, Steven. 



„ „ orientalis, Friwaldsky. 

 Leaves solitary, in a double series, two rowed, curved up- 

 wards, nearly equal in length, flat, linear, and one inch long, 

 with the point emarginate ; deep glossy green above, and 

 channelled below, with a glaucous white line each side of the 

 mid-rib, equal in breadth to the keel, and thickened margins, 

 and more or less twisted at the base. Branches, dense, and 

 regularly disposed in whorls, the lower ones horizontal, the 

 upper ones rising at a more acute angle. Cones, on very short 

 footstalks, erect on the upper side of the branches, five inches 

 long, two inches and a half in diameter, and egg-shaped, a little 

 blunted at the ends. Scales closely adpressed, cup-shaped, 

 very obtuse, nearly one inch and a half in breadth, and the 

 same in the full length ; somewhat recurved, smooth, entire, 

 and falling off when the seeds are ripe. Bracteas adhering to 

 the narrow base of the scales, but afterwards free and extending 

 beyond the scales, getting wider by degrees from the base out- 

 wards, rarely ovate, often cordate, reflexed at the apex, and in- 

 cumbent on the lower scale, with the point a line and a half long. 

 Seeds triangular, soft, two under each scale, and ripe in Septem- 

 ber. Wings obliquely expanded and membranous, with the 



