Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . ed j)rotuberanccs on which the leaves are seated,the groove between the leaf-bases being deep ; buds resinous. Leaves .\ toil ins. long, about ,V, in. wide ; slightly notched at the flaltish aj)cx, dark brightgreen alx)ve, with two broad, blue-white stomatic bands beneath. The under- ABIES 119 most leaves are the longest, and they spread horizontally ; above them eachsucceeding rank becomes smaller and more erect, leaving at last a very narrowor scarcely perceptible V-shaped opening along the top. Cones 3 to 4 ins. long,14 to li ins. wide, tapered
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . ed j)rotuberanccs on which the leaves are seated,the groove between the leaf-bases being deep ; buds resinous. Leaves .\ toil ins. long, about ,V, in. wide ; slightly notched at the flaltish aj)cx, dark brightgreen alx)ve, with two broad, blue-white stomatic bands beneath. The under- ABIES 119 most leaves are the longest, and they spread horizontally ; above them eachsucceeding rank becomes smaller and more erect, leaving at last a very narrowor scarcely perceptible V-shaped opening along the top. Cones 3 to 4 ins. long,14 to li ins. wide, tapered at top and bottom, purple, finally brown ; bractsquite enclosed. Native of Japan ; introduced about 1870. This is one of the most thrivingand handsome of firs, and very hardy. It occasionally bears good crops of itsrich purple cones, and is then very beautiful. It is, perhaps, best distinguishedby the deeply corrugated branchlets, the grooves in which become deeper thetwo following years, by the scaly bark of the trunk and the short, notched. V^\^-r i/iV Ahies leaves. In gardens a Japanese silver fir is sometimes seen under thename of— A. HOMOLKIMS, Sieboid {Pi. umbellata, Hort.).— \i is quite closely allied to,and may be merely a form of, A. brachyphylla, but the leaves are more dis-tinctly separated into two opposed sets, and the V-shapcd opening left by theuppermost leaves is much wider ; they are also longer (up to 11 ins.), the stomaticbands beneath are narrower and duller white, the apex is much more tapered,and the double points made by the notch are sharj), almost spiny. An interest-ing distinction is pointed out by Henry in the corrugation of the branchlets : inA. homolepis this is less apparent in the second and third years ; in A. brachy-phylla it is more pronounced. A cut branchlet bears a considerable resemblanceto that of A. firma, but the downy unroughened surface of the shoot of thelatter at once dislinj^uishcs it. A. homolepis appears to have
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