. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXXVU. CONl'FERiE: ^^BIES. 1025 longer than others The scales are about 2 in. long, standing open, with their points more or less bent down- wards ; the rhomboidal surface is much longer than ic is broad, inter- sected by many wrinkles lengthwise, of a dull greenish and yellowish brown c
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. LXXVU. CONl'FERiE: ^^BIES. 1025 longer than others The scales are about 2 in. long, standing open, with their points more or less bent down- wards ; the rhomboidal surface is much longer than ic is broad, inter- sected by many wrinkles lengthwise, of a dull greenish and yellowish brown colour. Seed winged, I in. long, and from 8 to 12 lines broad at the top, where it is broadest. It is small in proportion to the cone. The wing has almost the appearance of the upper wings of many small moths, being brownish, with dark stripes running length- wise. (Schlecht.) A large tree. Mexico, at Omitlan, near Hacienda de Guerrero, and other places. Height 100 ft. Introd. to H. S. Gard. in 1840 by Hartweg. A great deal of resin exudes from the whole cone, as in Pinus lytrobus, to which this species is nearly allied; but it differs in the points of the scales, which in this species are bent downwards, whereas in P. ^trobus they are bluntly rounded, obtuse, and stand 1921. /'. AyacahiMe, Genus II. j13IES D. Don. The Spruce Fih. Lin. Si/st. Monoecia Monadelphia. Jdentijication, D. Don in Lamb. Tin., vol. iii. S/ymitvymei. PinuB of Lin. and others, in part; PIcea hink in Abhatid. Konfg. Akad. Wissens. Berlin, p. 179. for 1827, (tiie ancients called tiie silver fir .4'bies, and the spruce fir Picea; but, by some inadvertence, Linnsua reversed these names: Professor Link has restored them in the essay quoted, but we have not thought it advisable to depart from the customary nomenclature, by following him); .4*bies of Tourn,, Mill., and others, in part; Picea of the ancients ; Sapiu gpicea, Pr.; Fichtenbaum, Ger.; Abete, Itai.; Abieto, Span. Derivation. From abeo, to ris
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