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IDENTIFICATION.—PIN US APOLLINIS, Antoine, Com/., p. 73 (1840-46).
ABIES APOLLINIS, Link, in Linncan Trans., xv. p. 528 (1841). Carrière. Traite. Gin. des Coni/., p. 209 (1855).
PINUS ORIENTALIS, Friwaldsky, Herb. Rwnel. afud Endlicher, in Syn. Coni/.. p. 96 (.847).
ABIES PECTINATA ß. APOLLINIS, Endlicher, Syn. Coni/., p. 96 (1847); Lindley and Gordon in Jmmi. Ilort. Soc.,
p. 210(1850).
PICEA APOLLINIS, Gordon, Supplement, p. 44 (1S62); Murray, in Proc. Hort. Soc., ii. p. 141 (1863).
VAU. PICEA REGINA AMALIE, Heldreich; Seeman, in Gardeners' Chronicle, p. 755 (1861). Murray, in Proc. Hort. Soc, iii p. 1/
('S63).
VAR. PICEA PELOPENESICA, Haage, Catalogue {m 1859.
Specific Character.—Valde affinis Picea Cephalonica; differt foliis minus planis et obtufis feminibus
alis fubito expanfis.
Habitat per omnem Grccciam inter 3000—4000 pedum elevationem.
V a r . REGIN/L AMALI/E, foliis craffis fubacuminatis.
Habitat in montibus Arcadia;.
Clofely allied to Picea Cephalonica. The bark is of a pale clay brown colour; pulvini very (lightly
raifed above the bark. The leaves are not arranged diftichally, but round the whole branchlet, the leaves
on the under fide, however, turning off diftichally. They are not fo acuminate as in P. Cephalonica, terminating
in a rather blunt point [fig. 3], which is bevelled off from behind inftead of being nearly equally
gradual in its (lope, both before and behind. The upper fide of the leaf [fig. 1] is deftitute of ftomata,
except a few in the middle near the tip; on the under fide [fig. 2] there is a feries of rows of ftomata on
Details of Picea Apillinis.
each fide of the midrib (which is prominent in the dried leaf—when the leaf is frefh, it is probably fubtetragonal
in feCtion); the ftomata are fmall, from 8 to 10 in number [fig. 4], more filvery and better defined
than in P. Cephalonica ; the midribs and part of the leaf on each fide of the ftomata are not filvery, and the
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