* *- Foliis solilariis ramos ambientïbus.
TA B . 25.
19. P I N U S ABIES.
NORWAY SPRUCE FIR.
P l" aS ABIES’ fo,IiS SOHtariiS tetrag0niS’ Str0bi,is cylindraceis; squamis rhombeis conlplanati.s margine
répandis erosis.
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F .M ,..M i , soliteriia « .ta k ti, mumn.tia M ib b , bifkriam r a » i , . Li,,,,. PI „ „
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’ n- 1 194' ^ J W re- 39 - 3 * - «* Hunter. 266. Trew. in Nov. Act. Ac. N. Cur.
J i o s S' l ° ' e tt‘ l6 S - 1 - 10- Mattusch.Sil. n.?0 5 . Dorr. Nerz. 263. Blackw
L ® v f 103' ' B0L PalL Fl- RoSS' V- U6-t l ■ /G- ^ o n . FI. Fed v o 180
JIM. Bo., 573. *. 208. Vitrr, Sp. PI. v. 5. 3 4 6 . Villars. Daupk. v. 3. 810
I . loins sohtarns, tetragoms, mucronatis. Hall. Helv n 1656
P. Picea foliis solilariis subuiatis bifariàm .arsis, conis oblongk pendulis, squamis o.alibus plauis mar
ginibus undulaUs el laceris. Du Roi. Harbk. ed. Pott, v. 2. 156.
Abies picea. Mill. Did. n. 2.
A. foliis solilariis apice acuminatis. Linn. Hort. Cliff. 449. Fl. Suec. ed. 1. 789. Fl. Lapp ed 1
n. 3 4 /. Dalib. Pans. 2Q5 . Gmel. Sib. v. 1. 175. ^
Die Bothtanne. Linn. Pfl. Syst. v. 2. 368.
Habitat in Europæ, Asiæ borealibus humidiusculis.
Floret Aprili.
D E SC R IP T IO .
Arbor excelsa recta, pyramidalis, ramis inferioribus deflexis. Folia solitaria, undique patula, uncialia
tetragoua, obtusmscula, lae.ia, nitida. StipuU nulke. Amenta viascula erecta, bre.ius pedunculate'
o.ato-cylmdracea; antherarum crista remformis, dentato-lacera, anther^ parum angustior: fceminea
cy indracea, erecta, solitaria, terminal«, scssilia; bracteoke squamis interstinctm, minimae,mucronulate
. Pendul1’. 4 Vel 5 lmciales- cylindracei, lie.es, squamis late o.alibus, seu rhombiformibus
complanatis, extus repandis, apice erosis.
J . Abies is one ot the loftiest of the European trees, growing sometimes to the height of one hun-
died and fifty feet. It ,s commonly straight and pyramidical. The bark is reddish and scaly, the leaves
t u y 111L }, Ut not so regularly as in P.picca-, they are slightly carinated on both sides, of a
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