HYBRID CONIFERS. 



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This is a very interesting cross between the flat-leaved Picea ajanensis 

 (figs. 27, 28), fertilised by the pollen of Picea nigra Doumeti. The habit, 

 so far as can be seen from the shoot, is that of P. ajanensis, the branches 

 convex from the base to the depressed tips, and the central or uppermost 



Fig. 27 — Picea ajanensis, showing the Upper Glaucous Surface 



OF THE Leaves. 



leaves appressed. The' bark is brown or fawn-coloured with promi- 

 nent " pegs " or pulvini, as in the true Spruces. The herbaceous 

 shoots are glabrous, angular, greenish or olive-coloured. The leaves 

 are densely arranged in many rows, secund, subequal, the lateral 

 ones forming an acute angle with the shoot that bears them, the 

 upper or median leaves convex, nearly of the same length, slightly 

 appressed, and with their points directed to the tips of the branches. 



