. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . eaning as it Inis, and wliicii I have refused to adopt ajtrotest against the ;-ion of sucli names into scientific nomenclature. Also in coni-l>liance with Art. 60, sect. 4 of tlie Laws of Botanical X^omenclature ailojited at tlieInternational Botanical Congress iield at Paris in 1867 which enacts that—Eveiy oneis liouiid to reject a name whicli is formed by a comb
. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . eaning as it Inis, and wliicii I have refused to adopt ajtrotest against the ;-ion of sucli names into scientific nomenclature. Also in coni-l>liance with Art. 60, sect. 4 of tlie Laws of Botanical X^omenclature ailojited at tlieInternational Botanical Congress iield at Paris in 1867 which enacts that—Eveiy oneis liouiid to reject a name whicli is formed by a combination of two languages. ABIKnA. 475 latter in being spirally crowded around a staniinal eolunm and notin globose clusters; the antlier cells split obliquely and not transverselyas in Abies and Tsuga. In the cones are combined charactersoccurring in all the other genera; they are pendulous as in Piceaand Tsuga but differ from Ijoth in the bracts l)eing longer than thescales and prominently exserted as in some of the species of preponderance of agreement is with A1)ies l)ut witli such amarked difference in the cones that the Douglas Fir has beengenerically separated from it l)y most recent Fig. 1-20. 1, Staiiiiiiate flowei of Ahiitui DoiKjlasi!; nat. sizi^. -2 and :;, side and front view beforedehiscence; i and 5, aftei dehiscence, X 10 ; li, three fresh pollen grains ; 7, two pollen grains after exposureto dry air fifteen minutes, x 1-0. Another Fir aberrant in siuue (if its characteristics from e\ery other,was discovered by Robert Fortune in south-east China and introducedby him about the year 1846. It was cultivated under the name ofAllies Forfunei but all the originally raised seedlings planted out inthis country seem to have perished in the course of a feAV years anda similar fate has probably befallen plants raised from seeds obtainedsince, doubtless from climatic causes. As Fortunes Fir is apparentlynot destined to have a place in the Br
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