216 PICE A, OR 



tain chain called Balgardah, in CiUcia, at an elevation of from 

 3000 to 7000 feet above the sea, mostly in immense forests/ 

 or intermixed with the cedar of Lebanon. The Mongolians 

 call it " Chadsura" (green and white), and the late Dr. Fischey 

 considered it only a variety of the Siberian Pitch Fir (Pice^, 

 Pichta), a kind which it certainly very much resembles, bu,t 

 differs from in having very much longer cones, and leaves more 

 silvery beneath. 



It is quite hardy, and called " Tchugatskoy " (strong-scented 

 Fir) by the Russians. 



No. 15. PiCEA CONCOLOR, Oordon, the Concolor-leaved 

 Silver Fir. 



Syn. Pinus concolor, Parlatore. 

 „ Abies concolor, Lvndley. 



Leaves closely placed, somewhat two-rowed, and the same 

 colour on both surfaces; they are linear, flat, leathery, and 

 either slightly falcate or straight, more or less obtuse at the 

 points, of a whitish colour when young, pale green when old, 

 and from one and a half to two inches long and one line broad. 

 Cones solitary, erect, nearly sessile, oblong, rounded at the 

 ends, and from two inches and a quarter to two and three-quar- 

 ters long, and from one inch and a quarter to one and a half 

 broad. Scales almost horizontal, closely placed, a little turned 

 up at the edges, transversely elliptic, with the margins rounded 

 and nearly entire. Bracteas, shorter than the scales and hidden. 

 Seeds soft and angularly wedge-shaped, with thin, broad, per- 

 sistent, and somewhat four-sided wings. 



A magnificent tree, with horizontal branches in regular 

 whorls, found on the Santa F^ mountains, in New Mexico, by 

 Fendler, and on the Eio de los Animos, in Southern Calitbmia, 

 by Engelmann. 



No. 16. PiCEA QRANDis, London, the Great Califomian Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Pinus grandis, Douglas. 



