Identifier: veitchsmanualof00kent (find matches)
Title: Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kent, Adolphus Henry Veitch, James Herbert, 1868-1907 James Veitch & Sons
Subjects: Conifers Conifers
Publisher: Chelsea : J. Veitch
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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ecognised as a distinct species bythe Finnish liotanist Alexander Nordmann who met with it in 1837near one of the sources of the Kur river on the Adschur or Atskurrange of mountains in the Caucasian province of Imeritia wliere itis very abundant. There is, however, sufficient evidence to show thatNordmann was not the original discoverer of it, since the regionover \vliicli it is spread had ))een previously partially explored byPallas in tlie latter part of the eighteenth century and more fullyby Bieberstein iu the early i»art of the nineteenth century, both ofwhom record a Silver Fir* but refer it to the common Europeanspecies which is nowhere found in the Trans-Caucasian pio\inces.Since Nordmanns journey, the region has been frequently visitedboth by Russian and German botanists, and the geographical rangeof Ahics Nordmanniana can be defined with approximate accuracy:— * Pallas, Flora Rossica, p. 6, t. 1, tig. g. (1784). Bieberstein, Flora Taurico-Caucasica,Vol. II. p. 409 (1808).
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Abies Nordmanniana at Castlewellan, Co. Down. 528 ABIES NOKDMANXIAXA. It lias not bciii met with cast of the meridian of TiHis, its furtherspicad ill that direetiou being prevented hy the arid cHmate of tliesteppes of eastern Georgia and the plain of Shirvan ; it does notoccur north of the lofty chain of Caucasus projjer, nor is it kn(j\vnto occur south of Uic boundary line separating the Russian from thePersian provinces. In the central Caucasus it covers the greater partof the mountain valleys from 3,500—6,000 feet elevation, ahnostconstantly associated with Picea ofipnfalix. It also occurs imder similarconditions in Iontish Armenia and Lazistan and more sparingly on themountanis around Trebizond, its western linut. The statement by(ionlon and others and inadvertently repeated in the former edition ofthis Manual that Ahies Nordmarnnana is common on the Crimeanmoimtains is without foundation. In the Avild state Ahiex Nordmanniana does not possess the elegant and compact outline for

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