108 PICE#, OR SPRUCE TREES 
Fir should appropriate the name of Abies, and that 
the Spruces, as residuary legatees of the only other 
left in the market, should assume the name of 
Picea, nothing, we contend, can ever be in a con- 
tentious world written down as final, or even of 
passing worth. 
GROUP I 
P. SmiTrHIANA, MAXIMOWICzII, SHRENKIANA, PuN- 
GENS, PotiTa, ALBA, BICOLOR (OR ALCOCKIANA) 
P. SmirH1ana.—As far as the names go the ver- 
nacular aliases (e.g. Morinda) of this tree have—with 
all apologies to Sir E. Smith, first President of the 
Linnean Society, and after whom it was named—a 
far more pleasing ring than the name finally bestowed 
on it by priority of publication, but not given,, we 
mark, by priority of name as bestowed upon it by 
the natives and European dwellers before the date 
1812, when it was described and figured by Dr. 
Wallich. It is certainly a tree that impresses the 
memory of the most casual of observers. Its long 
pendulous leaves, hanging like dangling tassels.on its 
long pendulous branches, are accountable for its 
home circle and Anglo-Indian name of the Weeping 
Spruce of the Himalayas. They are as unlike as can 
be, in outward appearance, to the more ordinary- 
looking Spruces. Yet if examined closely, they 
comply with all the requirements of the class in such. 
essentials as pulvini, acicular leaves, etc. 
P. SHRENKIANA.—Perhaps the nearest to the 
above-mentioned in appearance, only with leaves. 
much shorter, pointing forwards, and lying even 
nearer along the branches than an American jockey 
ever lay along his horse’s neck,-is the Siberian P. 
