Title: Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum, or : The trees and shrubs of Britain, native and foreign, hardy and half-hardy, pictorially and botanically delineated, and scientifically and popularly described ...
Identifier: arboretumetfrut04loud (find matches)
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843
Subjects: Trees; Shrubs; Botany; Botany
Publisher: London : J. C. Loudon
Contributing Library: California Academy of Sciences
Digitizing Sponsor: California Academy of Sciences

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2S30 ARBORETUM AND FKUTICETUM. PART III. . A. vulgaris Voir. Diet. Fnet/c., (5. p. 514.: A. pectinata Dec. Fl. Fr., 2. p. 275., N. Du H.irn., S p. 294.5 -"'• /axit'.Mia lh'»t. Par.; A. Picea Z./wrf/. in Pt'/in. Cyc, No. 1.; A. excelsa Link Abhami., &C.,jahr 1S-J7, p. 182, • Spanish Fir; Sapin commun, Sapin a Feuilles d'lf, Sapin blane, Sapin ar;;ente, Sapin on Peigoe, Sapin de Normantlie, Fr.; weiss Tanne, Edeltanne, Ger. Engravings. Lamb. Vin.,ed. l2., 1. t. 40 ; Nov. Ait. Acad. Nat. Cur., ;>. ; App., t. \3. f. 2& 44. : Pall. Ross., 1. t. 1. f. A/IXTK. 2237 F.j Wood v. Med. Bot, t 209.; licit, und Abel. Abb., t. 98. ; N. Du Ham., .">. t. 88.; our fig, 2837. of the natural size, and fig. 2238. to our usual scale ; and the plates of this species in our last Volume. Spec. Char., Sec. Leaves soli- tary, flat, obtuse; 2-ranked, with their points turned up. Cones axillary, cylindrical, erect; scales with a long dorsal bractea. Anthers with a short crest, with two teeth. (Lois.) Buds short, egg- shaped, blunt; of a reddish yellow, with from 16 to 20 blunt scales. Leaves from ^ in. to 1 in. long, stiff", turned up at the points; of a shining dark green above, and with two lines of silvery white on each side of the midrib be- neath. Cones from 6 in. to 8 in. long, and from 1a in. to 2in. broad; cylindrical; green when young, afterwards red- dish, and, when ripe, brown. Scale a in. to li in. long, and l£ in. broad. Seeds variously angular, § in. long, and -^ in. broad. Cotyledons 5. The blossoms appear in May, and the cones are matured in the (Ictober of the following year. / 'tn irtit'S. IP. p. 2 tortubsa Booth has the branches and branchlets remarkably twisted or crooked. There is a plant in Messrs. Loddigcs's ar- boretum 3 ft. high. i P. p. 3/dlUivariegdtu has the leaves variegated. There is a fine plant of this variety, about 4 ft. high, in the col- lection of the Rev. Theodore Williams, at i [endon ; and the lower blanch of a large tree at White Knight* hat become variegated, from which we have brought cut- tings, and presented tliem to the Horticultural Society, and to the Eiammei smith and Pulham Nurseries.
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