under fide is more obfcure than in P. peclinata. The male flowers are feflile, 6 or 8 lines in length, and
cluttered at the extremities of mature branches, with the cred of the anthers rounded in front, emarginate
behind. The cones are axillary, not cluttered together, erect; the fcales are expanded with a rounded
margin about an inch in length and an inch in breadth, with the expofed apophyfis about 3 lines deep
[fig. 5]; dorfal brad (lender, with a moderate expanfion, a lacerated margin at the apex, and a projecting
reflexed tooth [fig. 7, and fig. 8 do. magnified]. Seed about 6 lines in length, and the wing from 4 to 6
or 8, and as broad [fig. 6], In P. Cephalonica the wing of the feed has no fudden expanfion at the
bafe of its narrow fide, but (lopes gradually outwards, and is of a much thicker confidence, and lefs
acute in form (as (hewn in fig. 14).
The foregoing woodcuts reprefent the fcale and the feed of their natural fize, and the leaf magnified,
with which, for eafy comparifon, we repeat the cuts [figs. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16] which we have
already given of the fame parts in P. Cephalonica.
Details of Pieea Cephalonica.
The variety named by Dr Heldreich, Picea Regince A malice, differs fo (lightly from the normal form
of P. Apollinis, that we cannot confider it a didinct fpecies, notwithftanding that it is faid to poffefs peculiarities
in its mode of growth which do not exid, or have not been obferved, in P. Apollinis and P. Cephalonica.
The chief differences are the following : in P. Regince Amalice, the leaves are faid to be fewer and
lefs crowded together on the tree (although on this point our fpecimens do not agree with the defcription),
and they are thicker and more obtufe. The leaf terminates more abruptly and has a (harp acute point,
but, as in the normal P. Apollinis, is bevelled off from behind ; its domata are as in P. Apollinis. The
cone is faid to be fmaller, and fcarcely ever to meafure more than 5 or 6 inches. This, however, is not of
much importance, becaufe the cones of the true P. Apollinis are frequently only of the fame fize. The wing f f
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of the feed, as is always the cafe, varies a little in dimenfions according to the part of the cone from which
it is taken ; but, on the whole, it is perhaps a trifle longer than in P. Apollinis. The foregoing woodcuts
[figs.
[figs. 9a, 10a, 11 a, 12a, 13«, 14a, 15a, 16«] reprefent the fame parts in this variety which have been above
given for its allies.*
While it is our opinion that P. Regince Amalice is not a didinct fpecies, it is proper to add that Dr
Seeman dates that Landerer affures him, " in a letter juft received, that the lad expedition has brought
home a complete fet of fpecimens, both flowering and fruiting, and that all doubt as to Abies Regime
Amalice being a new and didinft fpecies can now be anfwered in the affirmative."
Defcription.—According to Endlicher, this is a tree not fo lofty as the common Silver Fir, Picea pectinata
; he faw no tree higher than 80 feet, and the branches proceed from nearer the root than in it.
The variety P. Regime Amalice, when left undidurbed, and when growing in favourable localities,
attains 55 feet in height and 2 to 3 feet in diameter. The peculiarity in its mode of growth above referred
to is, that the tree on being cut down, fay a foot or two above the ground, foon
fends out a quantity of fymmetrically-formed dems—not branches—from the old
dump, in the manner fliewn in the following woodcut [fig. 17], which is copied
from one publifhed in Dr Seeman's account of this variety in the " Gardeners'
Chronicle " above cited; and, even if undidurbed, its main dems frequently put
forth branches and fecondary dems from the old wood. There are ufually three
or four dems or old dumps. In trees that have been cut down, thefe new dems
attain from 18 to 20 feet in height and ij foot in diameter. They are of very
unequal fize, fome affuming greater dimenfions at the expenfe of the others.
We do not think the habit of fecond growth, even although it were fpecial and
confined to the plants found in the didrict whence P. Regince Amalice comes,
can be relied on as a fpecific character; and we doubt whether the fame habit rig
may not be found, under particular circumdances, in the allied fpecies. For Resi,"t *>»«"<>•
indance, in this country, P. Cephalonica, when injured by frod or otherwife, (hews a fimilar tendency;
and the common Silver Fir does the fame thing.
Geographical Dijlribution.—According to Endlicher, P. Apollinis forms foreds throughout Greece, at
an elevation of between 3000 and 4000 feet; in Taygete, at an elevation of 3500 to 4000 feet; in CEta and
Tymphrede, at an elevation of 2500 feet; common on Parnaffus of'Attica, at 3200 feet; and on Mount
Olympus, at from 2500 to 4600 feet, intermixed with Pinus Laricio.
The variety P. Regince Amalice is dated to be confined to the didrict in Central Arcadia above mentioned,
at an elevation of 1500 feet above the fea.
Hijlory.—This Pine was fird defcribed by Link in the " Linnean Tranfactions " [loc. cit.) Endlicher
adopted his name; but, thinking it only a variety of the common Silver Fir, Picea peclinata, placed it as var.
<8. of that tree. This is fo clearly a midake, that, were it not for the defcription of it given by him, and the
localities affigned to it, we lhould have been difpofed to think that he had not had true fpecimens of P.
Apollinis before him. His defcription (hews, we think, that what he had before him were fpecimens of
the variety P. Regime Amalice. If we arc wrong, and Picea Apollinis (hould, after all, be held not to
be a true fpecies, and is to go under any other known fpecies, it is under P. Cephalonica that it (hould
come, and not under P. peclinata.
As to the variety P. Regince Amalice, the following particulars regarding it are quoted from Dr
Seeman's paper above referred to:—
" In 1859 it was reported that, in the mountains of Arcadia, a foreft three leagues long had been difcovered, entirely compofed of a Fir, which
when cut down, fay a foot or two above ground, would invariably throw out from the old Hump a number of fymmetrically-formed flcms—not
branches
* We have not fcen any fpecimens of the branches, our materials having been confined to a few leaves and cones and their contents. [ 1 ] ^•.r^-KsasSB