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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

PART III.

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blanc, Sapin argents, Sapin en Peigne, Sapin de Normandie, Fr. j weiss Tanne, Edeltanne, Ger.

Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., I. t. 40 ;

Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur., 3.; App.,t. 13. f. 29. 44. : Pall. Ross., 1. t. 1. f.

F.; Woodv. Med. Bot., t. 209.: Reit,und Abel. Abb., t. 98. ; N. Du Ham.,

5. t. 82.; our fig. 2231. ofthe naturalsize, and fig. 2238. to our usual scale;and the plates of this species in ourlast Volume.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves soli-tary, flat, obtuse; 2-ranked,with their points turned up.

Cones axillary, cylindrical,erect; scales with a longdorsal bractea. Anthers witha short crest, with two teeth.

(Lois.) Buds short, egg-shaped, blunt; of a reddishyellow, with from 16 to 20blunt scales. Leaves fromin. to 1 in. long, stiff, turnedup at the points; of a shiningdark green above, and withtwo lines of silvery white oneach side of the midrib be-neath. Cones from 6 in. to8 in. long, and from ljin. to2in. broad; cylindrical; greenwhen young, afterwards red-dish, and, when ripe, brown.

Scale Ain. to 1J in. long, and1J in. broad. Seeds variouslyangular, § in. long, and T 3 F in.broad. Cotyledons 5. Theblossoms appear in May, andthe cones are matured in theOctober ofthe following year.

Varieties.

1 P. p. 2 tortuosa Booth hasthe branches andbranchlets remarkablytwisted or crooked.

There is a plant inMessrs. Loddiges’s ar-boretum 3 ft. high,t P. p. 3 foliis variegatis hasthe leaves variegated.

There is a fine plantof this variety, about4 ft. high, in the col-lection of the Rev.

Theodore Williams,at Hendon ; and thelower branch of alarge tree at White

Knights has become variegated, from which we have brought cut-tings, and presented them to the Horticultural Society, and to theHammersmith and Fulham Nurseries.