PICEA APOLLINIS. 
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[figs. 9 a, 10a, 11 a, 12a, 15a, lya, 15#, 16 a] reprefent the fame parts in this variety which have been above 
given for its allies.* 
While it is our opinion that P. Regince A malice is not a diftincft fpecies, it is proper to add that D r 
Seeman hates that Landerer affures him, “ in a letter juft received, that the laft expedition has brought 
home a complete fet of fpecimens, both flowering and fruiting, and that all doubt as to A bies Regince 
A malice being a new and diftindl fpecies can now be anfwered in the affirmative.’' 
Defcription. —According to Endlicher, this is a tree not fo lofty as the common Silver Fir, Picea pec- 
tinata ; he faw no tree higher than 80 feet, and the branches proceed from nearer the root than in it. 
The variety P. Regince A malice, when left unclifturbed, and when growing in favourable localities, 
attains 55 feet in height and 2 to 3 feet in diameter. The peculiarity in its mode of growth above referred 
to is, that the tree on being cut down, fay a foot or two above the ground, foon 
fends out a quantity of fymmetrically-formed ftems—not branches—from the old 
flump, in the manner fhewn in the following woodcut [fig. 17], which is copied 
from one publifhed in Dr Seeman’s account of this variety in the “ Gardeners’ 
Chronicle ” above cited; and, even if undifturbed, its main ftems frequently put 
forth branches and fecondary ftems from the old wood. There are ufually three 
or four ftems or old flumps. In trees that have been cut down, thefe new ftems 
attain from 18 to 20 feet in height and ij foot in diameter. They are of very 
unequal fize, fome affuming greater dimenfions at the expenfe of the others. 
We do not think the habit of fecond growth, even although it were fpecial and 
confined to the plants found in the diftriht whence P. Regince A malice comes, 
can be relied on as a fpecific character; and we doubt whether the fame habit 
may not be found, under particular circumftances, in the allied fpecies. For 
inftance, in this country, P. Cephalomca, when injured by froft or otherwife, fhews a fimilar tendency; 
and the common Silver Fir does the fame thing. 
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Fig. 17. 
P. Regince A malice. 
Geographical Dijlnbution. —According to Endlicher, P. Apollinis forms forefts throughout Greece, at 
an elevation of between 3000 and 4000 feet; in Taygete, at an elevation of 3500 to 4000 feet; in GEta and 
Tymphrefte, at an elevation of 2500 feet; common on Parnaffus of Attica, at 3200 feet; and on Mount 
Olympus, at from 2500 to 4600 feet, intermixed with Pinus Laricio. 
The variety P. Regince Amalice is ftated to be confined to the diftndt in Central Arcadia above men¬ 
tioned, at an elevation of 1500 feet above the fea. 
IPiJlory .—This Pine was firft defcribed by Fink in the “ Linnean Tranfadtions ” ( loc. cit. ) Endlicher 
adopted his name ; but, thinking it only a variety of the common Silver Fir, Piceapeclinata, placed it as ear. 
13. of that tree. This is fo clearly a miftake, that, were it not for the defcription of it given by him, and the 
localities affignecl to it, we fhould have been difpofed to think that he had not had true fpecimens of P. 
Apollinis before him. His defcription fhews, we think, that what he had before him were fpecimens of 
the variety P. Regince Amalice. If we are wrong, and Picea Apollinis fhould, after all, be held not to 
be a true fpecies, and is to go under any other known fpecies, it is under P. Cephalonica that it fhould 
come, and not under A. fedlinata. 
As to the variety P. Regince Amalice , the following particulars regarding it are quoted from Dr 
Seeman’s paper above referred to :— 
“ In 1859 it was reported that, in the mountains of Arcadia, a foreft three leagues long had been difcovered, entirely compofed of a Fir, which 
when cut down, fay a foot or two above ground, would invariably throw out from the old flump a number of fymmetrically-formed ftems—not 
branches 
* We have not feen any fpecimens of the branches, our materials having been confined to a few leaves and cones and their contents. 
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