CHAP. CXI1I.

CONI FER.®. ^'BIES.

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Genus II.

yf BIES D. Don. The Spruce Fir. Lin. Syst. Monoe'cia Monadelphia.

Identification. D. Don in Lamb . Pin., vol. iii.

Synonymes. Plnus of Lin. and others, in part; Picea Link in Abhand. Konig. Akad. Wissens .Berlin , p. 179., for 1827 ; A'bies of Tourn., MiJJ., and others, in part; Picea .of the Ancients;Sapin epicea, Fr. ; Fichtenbaum, Ger. ; Abiete, Iial. ; Abieto, Span.

Derivation. From abeo, to rise; alluding to the aspiring habit of growth of the tree; or, accordingto some, from apios, a pear tree; in allusion to the form of the fruit

Description. Evergreen trees ; natives of Europe , Asia, and America ; re-markable for their tall, erect, pyramidal forms, and profusion of foliage. Oneor more species are useful, and the rest ornamental. In Britain , they flowerin May and June, and ripen their cones in the spring of the following year.All the species bear seeds at a comparatively early age; and all of them maybe readily propagated by cuttings taken off 1 in the spring, according to Dumont,De Courset; or in autumn, according to the practice of British gardeners.All the species hitherto introduced are quite hardy in British gardens. Thegenus, taking it altogether, is so truly natural, that, without any great violence,all the different kinds of which it is composed might be reduced to three orfour species.

Sect. i. Leaves tetragonal, aval-shaped, scattered in Insertion.(D. Don.)

1 \. A. exCe'lsa Dec. The lofty, or Norway, Spruce Fir.

Identification. Dec. FI. Fr., 3.; Poir. Diet. Encyc. , 6. p, 518.; N. Du'Ham., 6. p. 289.

Synonymes. A. communis Hoi't. • ,4'bies Picea Mill. Diet. , No. 2., Michx. N. Amer. Syl,, S. p. 172.;A. fdliis solitdriis, &c., Lin. Hort. Cliff., 449., Ft. Suec., ed, 1., p. 879., FI. Lapp., ed. 1., No. 347.,Gmel. Sib, 1. p. 175.; Pinus /j'bles Lin. Sp. PL, 1421., Syst. t ed. ileich., 4. p, 177., Fl. Suec.,No. 875., Lapp., No. 347., Huds. Angl., 424., Hunt. Evel. Syl., p. 266., Fl. Dan., 1.193., Pall. Ft.Ross., 1. p. 6., Allion. Fl. Fed., 2. p. 180., Fill. Dauph ., 3. p. 810., Ait. Hort. Keto., 3. p. 371.,Willd. Berol. Baumz., p. 221., Smith in Rees's Cyc., No. 20., Lamb . Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 35., HossAnlcit ., p. 21.; P. Picea Du Rot Harbk., ed. Pott., 2. p. 156.; P. foliis solit&riis, &c., Hall. Helv.,No. 1656.; P. excdlsa Lam. Fl. Fr., ed. 1., 2. p. 202.; common Spruce, Prussian Fir ; fauxSapin, E'picea , Sapin-Pesse, jSerente, Sapin gentil, Pinesse, Fr. j Lafie, in the Vosges; gemeioerothe Tanne, Ger.

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Nov. Act Ac. N. Cur., 3., App., 1.14. f. 5. 10., and 1.16. f. 1. 10 , Blackw t. 1J8 >1.

r 'an., t; 193.; Pall. Fl. Ross., 1. t. 1. f. G.; Wood. Med. Bot., t. 208.; Lamb . P n , <rf. 2., f. 3& ,N. Du Ham., 6. t. 80.; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. t. H6.; our fig- 1 and the P lates of tlmtree in our last Volume.

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