. 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. Lxxvn. coni'ferje: pi'cea. 1051 Flowers and cones unknown. Found on the mountains of Mexico, at an ele- vation of 8000 or 9000 feet. A low tree, from 18 ft. to 20 ft. high; not yet introduced. E. Natives of Nepal. f 14. P. Webb7^\v^. WebWs piirp!e-coned Silver Fir. 'Syjwnymes. Plnus Webb
. 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. Lxxvn. coni'ferje: pi'cea. 1051 Flowers and cones unknown. Found on the mountains of Mexico, at an ele- vation of 8000 or 9000 feet. A low tree, from 18 ft. to 20 ft. high; not yet introduced. E. Natives of Nepal. f 14. P. Webb7^\v^. WebWs piirp!e-coned Silver Fir. 'Syjwnymes. Plnus WebbiVnn Wall, in Litt., Lamb. Pin. ed. 2. 2. t. 44.; P. spectibills Lamb. ilonog. 2. p. 3. t 2.; jl'bies WebbiiJna Lindl. in Penn. Cyc. No. 7., Royle Illust.; Chilrow, and the Oonum. or purple-coned fir, in the Himalayas. Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 44.; Monog., 2. t. 2.; and our figs. 1968. and 1969. Spec. Char., S(c. Leaves 2-rowed, linear, flat, obtusely emarginate, silvery beneath. Cones cylindrical; scales kidney-shaped, roundish; bracteoles oblong, apiculate. (D. Don.) Buds round, pointless, thickly covered with a yellow resin, by which alone the tree may be readily distinguished from every other species of Picea. Cones from 6i in. to 7 in. long, and above 2 in. broad. Leaves of young plants, in the Horticultural Society's Garden, from 1^ in. Scale above 1 in. long, and 1J in. broad. Seeds, with the wing, f in. long; wing fin. broad in the widest part. Seeds ^ in. long, and ,^in. broad. In general they are smaller, but longer, and with a sharper point, than those of the common silver fir; and, like' the seeds of the common silver fir, they are of a brownish purple 1968. P. Webbiina. Cotyledons, ?. A large, hand- some, pyramidal tree. Nepal, on the Alps of Gossainthan. Height 80 ft. to 90 ft., with a trunk from 3 ft. to 4 ft. in diameter near the base. In- troduced in 1822. Cones purple, in one or two in- stances produced in England. Branches nume
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