P. SHRENKIANA AND PUNGENS 109 
Shrenkiana, which so far with us ranks among the 
rarities. As far as a limited and local experience 
goes, this tree seems to thrive in some of the highly 
situated positions of this neighbourhood (the borders 
of Herefordshire and Radnorshire), localities which 
are counted by unkind critics from more balmy 
regions as examples of climatic severity. Two or 
three young specimens have weathered the conditions 
of 1915 and 1916, which included fourteen degrees 
of frost on May 2oth in one year, and the coldest 
succession of continual north wind blasts we, or any 
one living, can ever remember, and which for the first 
time in the memory of man “ browned ”’ the exposed 
side of many of our inland-growing Conifers. 
Its appearance rather suggests a pocket edition 
of the Smithiana. The leaves are shorter, and those 
on a bough before me are from # to 1 in. long, and 
mounted on unusually high pegs or pulvini. They 
not only point forward, but point forward so pointedly 
that their tips almost touch the branch. 
Another peculiarity of its appearance as a tree 
is the long terminal shoot, which is twice the length 
of the longest branchlet in the whorl and more than 
twice as thick. The terminal shoot before me 
measures nearly two inches round its base. The 
cones on a local tree are 2} in. long (W. Banks, Esq., 
Hergest Croft, Kington), while of those I have ob- 
tained from the Royal Botanical Gardens, Petrograd, 
the longest measures 4 in. 
P. PunceEns, especially in the blue form (var. 
Glauca) is seen everywhere, and often called Parryana, 
after its discoverer, Dr. C. C. Parry, who found it in 
1862. A form called Kosteri Pendula claims to be, 
and is, more brilliantly blue still. Many trees that 
are written down Engelmannii turn out to be P. 
Pungens. 
