75 o The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



According to Hansen,^ it is said to thrive at Trondhjem in Norway, but Henry saw 

 no specimens at Trondhjem or Christiania. It is often planted in Danish gardens 

 and forests, and is quite hardy in Denmark. 



According to Sargent/ it is very hardy in the eastern United States, as far 

 north, at least, as eastern Massachusetts, but although handsome when young, is apt 

 to become thin and shabby here at an early stage. (H. J. E.) 



ABIES WEBBIANA, Himalayan Fir 



Abies Webbiana, Lindley, Fenny Cyclop, i. 30 (1833)5 Griffith, Icon. As. PI. t. 371 (1854) ; Masters, 

 Gard. Chron. xxii. 467, f. 86 (1884), and x. 395, f. 47 (1891); Hooker, Gard. Chron. xxv. 

 788, ff. 174, 17s (1886), and Flora Brit. India, v. 654 (1888); Kent, Veitch's Man. Coniferm, 

 543 (1900); Gamble, Indian Timbers, 718 (1902). 



Abies spectabilis, Spach, Hist. Vig. xi. 422 (1842). 



Abies Mariesii, Masters, Bot. Mag. t. 8098 (1906) (not Masters, Gard. Chron.xu. 788 (1879)). 



Finns Webbiana, Wallich, ex Lambert, Genus Finns, 77, t. 44 (1828). 



Finns spectabilis, D. Don, Prod. Fl. Nepal 55 (1825). 



Ficea Webbiana, Loudon, Arb. et Fmt. Brit. iv. 2344 (1838). 



A tree, attaining in the Himalayas 150 feet or more in height and 35 feet^ in 

 girth, with thick spreading horizontal branches ; bearing a flattened crown of foliage. 

 Bark speedily scaling on young stems ; on old trunks, greyish brown, rough, 

 irregularly fissured and very scaly. Buds large, globose, brownish, covered with 

 resin, which conceals the keeled obtuse scales. Young shoots reddish brown with 

 prominent pulvini, separated by deep grooves ; pubescence short, erect, reddish, 

 confined to the grooves and not spreading over the pulvini. In the second year's 

 shoot the pulvini and grooves are more marked, the pubescence being retained. 



Leaves on lateral branchlets pectinately arranged, in two lateral sets, each of 

 several apparent ranks ; the lower ranks on each side extending outwards in the 

 horizontal plane ; the upper ranks, with leaves becoming gradually shorter, directed 

 outwards and upwards, and forming a V-shaped depression, in the bottom of which 

 the upper side of the branchlet is plainly visible. Leaves i to i\ inches long, ^ 

 inch wide or more, linear, flattened, uniform in width except at the shortly tapering 

 base, rounded and bifid at the apex ; upper surface dark green, shining, with a 

 continuous median groove and without stomata ; lower surface with two broad 

 conspicuously white bands of stomata; resin-canals marginal. Leaves on cone- 

 bearing branchlets similar to those on barren branchlets. 



Cones on short stout stalks, resembling in shape and colour those of ^. Pindrow ; 

 in native specimens both from Sikkim and Kumaon, smaller than those on cultivated 

 trees; scales fan -shaped, about | inch wide and f inch long (not including the 

 short obcuneate claw) ; bracts extending to near the upper edge of the scale, with an 

 oblong claw, expanding above into a suborbicular denticulate lamina, tipped with a 



1 Injourn. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 472 (1892). 



2 Silva N. Amer. xii. 98, adnot. (1898). The trees, however, at Wellesley, one of which is S9 feet by 5 feet, were 

 slightly injured daring the severe winter of 1903-4. Cf. Sargent, The Pmetum at Wellesley in 1905, p. 12. 



3 Hooker, Him. Joum. ii. p. 108. 



