chap, cxi ii. coni'fehje. Pi'cea. 2329 



dimensions of our cedars of Lebanon, which there is no reason to suppose it 

 will not do in favourable situations, its timber may probably be found as useful 

 here as it was in Cephalonia. Should, however, its timber be of no more use 

 than that of the cedar of Lebanon, it is still in every way as worthy of being 

 planted as an ornamental object as that fine tree. As the plant strikes with 

 great readiness by cuttings, a number have been propagated in the Devonshire 

 nurseries, and also in the neighbourhood of London. There are plants in the 

 pinetum at Dropmore, and in the garden of Robert Mangles, Esq., of Sun- 

 ninghill. The large plants at Hendon Rectory, and in the pinetum at Woburn 

 Abbey, are upwards of 3 ft. high ; but the one at Dropmore is only about 

 18 in. high. Price of plants, in the British nurseries, 2 guineas each. 



App. i. Species of A^bies of "which little more is hiown than 

 their Names. 



A. obovdta D. Don MS., Picea obovata Led. Icon. PL FL Ross., t. 500. Leaves arranged in 

 many series, curved upwards. Cones erect, cylindrical. Scales abruptly dilated at the cuneate base 

 into a quadrangular lamina, broader towards the point. Bracteas somewhat quadrangular, mucro- 

 nate, not half the length of the scale, scarcely broader than the wing of the fruit, which is straight on 

 both margins towards the apex. Found on the Altai Mountains, at an elevation of 5272 ft. Flowering 

 in May; not yet introduced. Professor Don informs us, that he strongly suspects this tree to be 

 only a northern form of ^'bies Smithm«a. Ledebour, he says, has committed the same error in 

 regard to his P. obovata, as Dr Wallich did in the case of J x bies Smlthiana ; that is, he has described 

 the cones as erect, while, from the other parts of his description, it must belong to /4'bies. 



A. Mertensiana Bong, and A. sitchensis Bong, are mentioned by M. Bongard in his observations 

 on the Island of Sitcha, on the west coast of North America, in N. lat. 57°, as indigenous there. 

 The article is quoted in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 2dser., torn, ii i. p. 237. ; but no description 

 is given. A. trigdna, A. heterophylla, A. aromdlica, A. microphylla, A. obliquata, and A. falcuta 

 are mentioned by Rafinesque as being found in the Oregon country ; but, as he gives no description 

 of these trees, it is uncertain whether they belong to J'bies or Picea. The same observations will 

 apply to A. hiitilla Humboldt et Kunth Nov. Gen. et Sp. Plant., pi. 2. p. 5., of which nothing is 

 known either of the flowers or cones ; and A. Kcempjhru and A. ThunbergW, mentioned by Thun- 

 berg; and A. Morni, A. Torano, and A. Araragi, enumerated by Sieboldt in Verhand. Batav. 

 Genootsch., xii. p. 12., as quoted in Pen. Cyc. 



Genus III. 



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PI'CEA D. Don. The Silver Fir. Linn. Sysl. Monce'cia Monadelphia. 



Identification. D. Don in Lamb. Pin., vol. 3. 



Synonymes. Pinus Lin., in part ; ^4'bies Link, Nees von Esenbeck, and Ledebour; J'bies Du Rot, 

 in part; Sapin, Fr. ; Tannen, Ger. 



Derivation. From pix, pitch ; the tree producing abundance of resin. Loiseleur Deslongchamps 

 observes that the silver fir was called by the ancients Abies, and the spruce Picea; and that 

 Linnaeus has created much confusion by reversing the application of the names. He proposes, 

 therefore, to call the silver fir vTbies vera, and the spruce fir yi'bies Picea. (N. Du Ham., v. 214. 

 note.) Link has divided the spruces and silver firs into two genera, and given the classical names 

 of Picea to the first genus, and ^Tbies to the second (see Abhand. Akad. der Wissenschaften, jahr 

 1827, p. 157.) ; and in this he has been followed by Nees von Esenbeck, and Ledebour. 



Description. Trees remarkable for the regularity and symmetry of their 

 pyramidal heads ; readily distinguished from the genus J v bies, by their leaves 

 being more decidedly in two rows ; by their cones being upright, and having 

 the scales deciduous ; and by the seeds being irregular in form. The nucleus 

 of the seed is exposed at the inner angle, through a considerable opening in 

 the outer testa, as if the junction of the two sides had been ruptured by the 

 rapid enlargement of the nucleus. ( D. Don.) They are natives of Europe, 

 Asia, and America; but, generally, in regions more temperate than those 

 in which the species of spruce abound. In Britain, with the exception of 

 P. pectinata, they are solely to be considered as ornamental trees. 



2 I. P. pectina'ta. The comb-\ike-/eaved Silver Fir. 



Synonymes. A"b\es of Pliny; Pinus Picea Lin. Sp. PL, 1420., Syst., ed. Reich,, 4. p. 175., Huds, 

 Angl., p. 423., Scop. C'rn.. No. 1193., Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. p. 7., A/lion. Fl. Ped., 2. p. 179., fill. 

 Dauph., 3. p. 809., Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 370., Willd. Berl. Baumz., p. 217., Hayne Dend., 

 p. 176., Hb'ss Anleit.,Y>. 17., Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., I. t. 40., Hal. Helv., No. 1517.; P. yfbies Du 

 Roi Harbk., ed. Pott., t. 2. p. 133., Rcit. und Abel. Abb., t. 98. ; /Tbies alba Mid. Diet., No. 1., Lin. 

 Hort. Ch£T., p. 449. ; A. Taxi fdlio Tourn. Inst, p. 585., Dm Ham. Art., 1. p. 3., tauh. Pin. t 



