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value, The Park has the following varieties: longifolia, Zowdon ; with longer 
leaves and more erect branches than the species. variegata, Anig//; foliage 
somewhat variegated with white. 
Picea bracteata, Loudon. LEAFY-BRACTED SILVER Fir. (Pinus brac- 
teata, Don ; Abies bracteata, Hooker.) A \arge, beautiful tree from California, 
with linear-lanceolate, acute, hard leaves. Its hardiness is more than doubtful 
here. 
Picea Cephalonica, Loudon. We have doubtfully placed this (after Parla- 
tore) under the head of Adzes excelsa. 
* Picea concolor, Enge/mann. (Pinus concolor, Engelmann ; Abies con- 
color, Lindley.) Often mistaken for Adies grandis (“by the Rocky Moun- 
tain botanists’’), which, however, is confined to California (and the region 
to the north), where both are found. It is “a stately tree,” with foliage 1 
to 3 inches long and at first pale glaucous, then dull green, It extends into 
Southern Arizona. 
Picea Cilicia, Rauch. CILICIAN SILVER Fir. (Pinus Cilicia, Carriere ; 
Picea Pichta alba, Hort.; Picea longifolia, Hort.) A tall, handsome tree, 
50 feet high, growing in the mountains of Asia Minor along with the Cedar 
of Lebanon. f 
Picea firma, Gordon. JAPAN SILVER Fir. (Pinus firma, Antoine; Abies 
_ firma, Siebold and Zuccarini ; Abies bifida, Siebold and Zuccarini.) Leaves 
solitary, thickly placed, sharp, blunt-pointed or even notched at the end. Tall 
tree from Japan. Hardy here. 
Picea Fraseri, Loudon. FRASER’S SILVER Fir. (Pinus Fraseri, Pursh; 
Abies Fraseri, Lindley ; Abies balsamea B Fraseri, Spach.) A small tree from 
the mountains of North Carolina, “rarely as much as 30 or 40 feet high ;”’ 
often “mistaken for Picea balsamea, from which it is distinguished by its 
shorter, denser, and more erect foliage, as well as by the very compact shape 
and numerous small branchlets.””—/oopes. Picea Hudsonia “ of the gardens, 
often considered as a form of Fraseri, is a sterile dwarf form of [Picea] ba/- 
samea.”’—Engelmann, 
Picea grandis, Loudon. GREAT CALIFORNIA SILVER Fir. Pinus grandis, 
Douglas ; Abies grandis, Engelmann.) A \arge, valuable timber-tree, attain- 
ing in California and the region to the north a height of 240 feet. ‘ Leaves 
glossy green, I to 2 inches long; cones 2 to 4 inches long, scales twice as 
broad as high.”—£age/mann. Tree not well known. Thoroughly hardy 
here. I omit the garden varieties Z/aviana and /asiocarpa here, as neither 
appears as such in the last edition of Gordon’s Pinetum, and, further, both are 
relegated to what we have named Picea concolor. 
Picea magnifica, M/urray. Pompous SILVER Fir, Rep Fir of the Sierras, 
(“ Abies nobilis, var. robusta, in Hort., Dickson and Turnbull; Abies cam- 
pylocarpa, Murray ; Abies amabilis of the California botanists; Pseudotsuga 
magnifica, McNab,”"—Engelmann. California tree, 10 feet in diameter, and 
over 200 feet high. 
Picea nobilis, Zoudon. Noni_e Si_ver Fir, Rep Fir of the Cascades. 
( Pinus nobilis, Douglas; Pseudotsuga nobilis, Bertrand; Abies nobilis, Lind- 
ley.) Tree from Oregon, 200 feet high. Foliage rigid glaucous. Hardy here, 
The variety glauca has the leaves “ silvery-white color.” 
