. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 280 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 14. P. Koyamai, Shiras. (P. Moramomi, Hort.). Narrow pyramidal tree to 60 feet tall; bark grayish-brown, scaly, peeling off in thin flakes; branchlets reddish-brown and slightly bloomy, the lateral ones glandular-pubescent, the leading shoots nearly glabrous; winter-buds conical, brown, resinous; leaves quadrangular, slightly compressed, straight or curved, acute or obtuse, ]/i-}4 inch long
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 280 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 14. P. Koyamai, Shiras. (P. Moramomi, Hort.). Narrow pyramidal tree to 60 feet tall; bark grayish-brown, scaly, peeling off in thin flakes; branchlets reddish-brown and slightly bloomy, the lateral ones glandular-pubescent, the leading shoots nearly glabrous; winter-buds conical, brown, resinous; leaves quadrangular, slightly compressed, straight or curved, acute or obtuse, ]/i-}4 inch long, the white bands above each with 5-8 rows of stomata, those beneath with 2-4 rows each and inconspicuous: cones cylindric-oblong, 2-4 inches long, pale brown, pale green before maturity: scales broad, rounded, denticulate, very firm. Japan.—Introduced in 1914 by E. H. Wilson to the Arnold Arboretum where it has proved hardy. 15. P. bicolor, Mayr (P. Alcockiana, Carr., partly. P. AlcocJciana nova, Hort. Abies bicolor, Maxim.). Alcock S. Plate XXXV. Pyramidal tree 80-150 feet tall, with rather stiff, spreading or ascending branches; bark grayish-brown, fissured into thin plates; young branches dull yellowish- brown, glabrous, usually only leading shoots pubescent; winter-buds conic- ovoid, brown, slightly resinous: leaves quadrangular, slightly compressed from above, somewhat curved, with 2 bluish-white bands above, dark green beneath and with only 2-4 rows of stomata on each side, sharply acuminate, 3/^-^ inch long: cones oblong, brown, purple before ripening, 3-4 inches long; scales obovate, finely denticulate and slightly wavy at the often recurved margin. Japan.—Introduced in 1861 and again in 1868 to Europe. Hardy as far north as southern Ontario and New England. A handsome tree growing well in the eastern States. 16. P. Glehnii, Mast. Saghalin S. Tree to 120 feet tall, of narrow- pyramidal habit with slender, short and spreading branches; bark red-brown, fissured into
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