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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.
blanc, Sapin argents, Sapin en Peigne , Sapin de Normandie, Fr. j weiss Tanne, Edeltanne, Ger,
Engravings. Lamb. Pin.,ed. 2., 1. t. 40 ;
Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur., 3.; App.,t. 13. T. 29. 44. : Pall. Ross., 2. t. 1. f.
F.; Woodv. Med. Bot., t. 209.; Reit.und Abel. Abb., t. 98.; N. Du Ham.,
5. t. 82. j our Jig. 2237. of the 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 from\ in. 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 1J in. to2in. broad; cylindrical; greenwhen young, afterwards red-dish, and, when ripe, brown.
Scale ^ in. 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 of the following year.
Varieties.
IP. |i.2 tortuosa Booth hasthe branches andbranchlets remarkablytwisted or crooked.
There is a plant inMessrs. Loddiges’s ar-boretum 3 ft. high.
1 P. p. 3 foliis variegdtis 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.