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var, ohovata, C. Koch, Denclr. ii. 238. Picea vulgaris var. altaica^ 

 Teplonchoff, Bull. Soc. de Mosc. ed. 1, xli. 250. 



} Probably this name is only correct for those plants of Picea 

 ohovata that grow in Northern Europe, viz. Picea excelsa medioxorna, 

 Nylander, which form is very well illustrated in the " Pinetum 

 Eritannicum." 



Habitat.— ^iherifx, from the Ural Mountains to Dahurica, and 

 from the Altai Mountains— where it forms vast forests from the base 

 to 4,000 feet elevation — to the arctic regions as far as lat. 69° 30' N. ; 

 also in Northern Europe. 



It is called " Kara-Schersfe " by the Tartars on account of its 

 warfced branches and close appearance, and is a very different kind 

 from the Ahies orientalis which is so frequently substituted for it in 

 nurseries. It more resembles the common Spruce, but with very 

 much smaller egg-shaped cones, which are quite obtuse at the ends, 

 and seldom more than 2 k inches long by 1^ wide. 



Some authors deem this plant to be only a variety or mountain 

 form of P. excelsa. Dr. Ugo Dammer has written on this question in 

 the Oartenflova. 



We have probably more than one form of P. ohovata in Denmark 

 among the so-called " Nordlands-Graner," raised from seeds received 

 from more northern parts of Europe. 



Hardy. 



P. Omorika, Pancic. C. Bolle, Monatsb. des Vereines zur 

 Beforderung des Gartenbaues, 1877 ; Peichenbach in Botanische 

 Zeitung, 1877 ; Gard. Chron. April 14, 1877, 470, May 19, 1877, 

 620, and March 8, 1884, 308 ; Ascherson, Sitzb. der Gesells. Natur- 

 freunde zu Berlin, 1881; Bolssier, Fl. Orientalis, v. 701 (sub P. orlentali 

 ohiter). Pinus Omorica, Pancic. 



Hahitat. — Mountains of South-western Servia, in Bosnia and 

 Montenegro ; also in Western Bulgaria. 



Picea orientalis, which has been compared with it, has shorter 

 leaves, more acutely pointed and more four-sided in section. The 

 cells also which surround the central bundle-sheath are in P. orientalis 

 of an oblong form, and radiate from the central bundle on all sides. 

 Their walls are undulated. Hence, then, the superficial aj^pearance, 

 no less than the internal structure of the leaves, is quite distinct in 

 the two species ; a comparative examination of which, therefore, 

 confirms Dr. Pancic's view that he had to do with a previously 

 undescribed species, and not with a form of P. orientalis. Moreover, 

 the cones of P. orientalis are longer and the scales broader than in 

 P. Omorilm (Maxwell T. Masters, "Contributions to the History of 

 certain Species of Conifers"). 



Recently introduced into Northern Europe ; the first tree was 

 planted in Denmark in 1800. 



Hardy, 



