. 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. Lxxvji. coNr fekjE : pi cea. 1043 This is said to be a finer tree than the common silver fir, from its silvery leaves and abundant strobiles. The branches are dense, about 2 in., scarcely ever 3 in., thick, and regulai-ly disposed; the lower horizontal, the ujiper springing at a more acu
. 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. Lxxvji. coNr fekjE : pi cea. 1043 This is said to be a finer tree than the common silver fir, from its silvery leaves and abundant strobiles. The branches are dense, about 2 in., scarcely ever 3 in., thick, and regulai-ly disposed; the lower horizontal, the ujiper springing at a more acute angle. At from 1+ to 17 years old the tree begins to bear fruit at top. When full-grown, the whole crown is covered, from a fourth part of its height, with large, conical, erect strobiles, solitary or in twos or threes, and coated over with a resinous exudation. The seeds ripen about the end of September, when they immediately fall off with the scales, the axis often remaining for the whole year. The wood is harder than that of the common .silver fir. The male catkins have not been seen. The female strobiles are sessile, or on very short peduncles, erect, 5 in. long, and 2i in. in diameter. Rachis 2 or 3 lines thick, gradually attenuated, ligneous, rough with tubercles spirally disposed for the insertion of the scales. There are 12 or 13 of these spiral lines, each containing 8 tubercles in its circumvolution, making a total of about 100 florets, or 200 seeds, in each strobile. Scales closely adpressed ; superior (fig. 1930. a, c) cup-shaped, narrow at the base for about 2 lines in length, then suddenly dilated into a lamina, at first straight and of 3 lines broad, afterwards greatly expanded, somewhat recurved, and nearly IJin. in breadth, which is also the length of the scale itself; inferior (fig. 1950. b, d) much shorter, lamina with a subreniforra base, triangularly crenate. Lateral margins of the lamina eroded, dentate, upper entire ; inner surface slightly keeled, out
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