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Leaves short, slender, frequently curved upwards, and much 

 smaller than those of the species. 



The branches of this variety of the common Silver Fir are turned 

 upwards on the main stem, but with their ends and branchlets 

 curved, and more or less drooping. 



It has a narrow, conical head, resembling that of the Lombardy 

 Poplar in outline, but with a drooping appearance when closely in- 

 spected. A very striking variety, of German origin. 



A. p. pyramid alis, hort. (the Pyramidal Common Silver Fir). 

 A. yectmcda puramidalin, Carr. Ficea pyramidalls, hort. P. taxi- 

 folia pyramidalis, Makoy. 



This singular variety originated at Metz, and differs from the 

 preceding in having its branches and branchlets more erect, slenderer, 

 thinner, and much compressed, and in the full-grown trees having an 

 erect pyramidal shape like the Lombardy Poplar. 



A. p. stricta, hort. Carr. Conif. ed. 1, 207. A. pyramidalis 

 metensis, hort. A. pectinata pyramidaiis, hort. A. pectutata Pdnzi, 

 hort. A. metensis, hort. A. Rinzi, hort. 



A. Pindrow, Spach. Pimis Findrov:, Poyle, Himalay. 354, t. 86. 

 Abies Wehhiana /3 Findrou; Brandis, Forest Flora, 354, t. 86. Ficea 

 Findrow, Loud. Arb. iv. 2346, f. 2254-55. P. Herhertiona, Madd. 

 P. Naplda, Knight, ex Gord. Pinet. 157. Finns Naplda, hort. Ant. 

 Conif. 80. Ahies Findroiv, Spach, Hist. Yeg. Phan. xi. 423. Taxus 

 Lamhertiana, Wall. Cat. No. 6056. 



Habitat. — Himalaya Mountains, to about 10,000 feet high, in the 

 valley of the Sutlej, &c. Introduced into Europe in 1837 by Royle. 



Professor Don observes that A. Findroiv is liable to be con- 

 founded with A. Webbiana, but that the former is readily distin- 

 guished from the latter by its longer and acutely bidented leaves of 

 nearly the same colour on both surfaces, and by its shorter and 

 thicker cones with trapezoid-formed scales, and rounded, notched 

 bracteoles. Dr. Royle, who appears to have been the only botanist 

 who found the tree either in flower or in fruit, states that it grows to 

 a large size, varying from 80 feet to upwards of 100 feet in height, 

 with widely spreading branches, and that he met with it at an 

 elevation of 1,000 feet above the level of the sea. 



A noble tree, with flat, horizontal branches, in regular, distinct 

 whorls, found abundantly in Bhotan, from 11,000 to 12,000 feet of 

 elevation. In Kamaon it is found at from 7,500 to 9,000 feet of 

 elevation, where it clothes the sources of the Kosilla, in a forest 

 of unusual gloom and thickness. It also grows on the easternmost 

 range of the Himalayas, where it is called "Payha," also on the 

 Khoor and Kedarkanta Mountains, at elevations of from 8,500 to 

 12,000 feet, and on all other ranges of similar height, where the 

 trunks attain a great girth and height, 'some of the trees on the Khoor 

 Mountains measuring 20 feet round at five feet from the ground, and 



