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and there are certainly a greater number to be found there than in all 

 Central Japan combined. 

 Seems to be hardy. 



P. hondoensis, H. Mayr, Monogr. d. Abietineen des Japan. 

 Reiches, 1890, 51, 4, f. 9. 



Habitat. — The real Tohi is only to be found on the high mountains 

 of Central Japan, from 35^° to 38° N. It is not to be found more 

 northerly. It belongs to the temperate cool region. With P. hicolor 

 it forms mixed forests on the Fuji-san, and on the Ontake and other 

 mountains of Central Japan and Kisso ; on the Nantai-san, near 

 Nikko, it extends higher up than Birches, Beeches, and Oaks, and it 

 is there found mingled with Tsuga diversifolia. 



P. jezoensis, Carr. Tr. Gen. Conif. ed. 2, 345. Abies jezo'ensis, 

 Sieb. and Zucc. Fl. Jap. ii. 19, t. 110. Finns jezoensis, Ant. Conif. 97, 

 t. 37, f. 1. 



This species Dr. Mayr identifies with Ficea ajanensis, Fisch. 



As our plants in Denmark are still young, I think it right to keep 

 the above name to them for a time. 



P. microsperma. Abies microsperma, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 

 Jan. 1861 ; Veitch, Gard. Chron. April 1862 ; Gord. Pinet. Suppl. 12 

 (descript. falsa) ; A. Murr. hi. Pines and Firs of Japan, 69, figs. 

 129-136. 



This plant Dr. Mayr also believes to be identical with F. ajanensis 

 (like the F. jezoensis), but I think it best still to keep the above name 

 to our young plants during observation, until a correct determination 

 can be arrived at. 



P. Morinda, Link in Linnsea, xv. 522. Finns Smithiana, 

 Lamb. Pin. iii. t. 88. P. Khutrow, Poyle, Illustr. of Himal. Bot. 

 353, t. 84, f. 1. Abies Smithiana, Forb. Pinet. Wob. 103, t. 30. 

 A. Klmtmw, Loud. Encycl. of Trees, 1032, f. 1931. A. spinulosa, 

 Grifi". Journ. of Travels, 259, 265, 275. A. pendula, Grifi". ex Gord. 

 Pin. Suppl. 7. A. Morinda, hort. Ficea Khntrow, Carr. Conif. ed. 

 1, 258. Finns Morinda, hort. 



Habitat. — The Himalayan Mountains from Bhotan (7,800 to 10,500 

 feet) to Cashmere, and throughout the whole of the forests from the 

 Kuram district to Seratigah, in Afghanistan, at elevations ranging 

 from 6,000 to 12,000 feet. Hare in Sikkim, at elevations of from 

 8,000 to 11,000 feet (Hook. fil. and Thompson). 



Introduced into Scotland in 1818 by Dr. Govan, of Cupar, who 

 sent cones to the Earl of Hopetoun. From the seeds of these cones 

 the first plants, six in number only, were raised. 



A magnificent tree, found on the lofty mountains of the interior, 

 from Bhotan up to Kafiristan, at elevations of from 7,000 to 12,000 feet, 

 and it is not only a very superb, but a very graceful tree. The boughs 

 ascend a little in the young trees, but are horizontal in the older ones, 

 and from these the branchlets and smaller twigs droop in the most 



