. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. to establish the position ofthe particular plant before us. If, then, the namesgrandis, amabilis, and lasiocarpa do not—and webelieve they do not—properly apply to this species,what shall we call it ? By a process of elimina-tion we seem to be reduced to two, Lowiana andParsonsiana ; but, as we have seen, Lowiana is out ofcourt by virtue of the law of priority, and Parsonsianahas only the dignity of a catalogue name. It is aname and a name only. Still we should feel boundto adopt it, and to do our be
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. to establish the position ofthe particular plant before us. If, then, the namesgrandis, amabilis, and lasiocarpa do not—and webelieve they do not—properly apply to this species,what shall we call it ? By a process of elimina-tion we seem to be reduced to two, Lowiana andParsonsiana ; but, as we have seen, Lowiana is out ofcourt by virtue of the law of priority, and Parsonsianahas only the dignity of a catalogue name. It is aname and a name only. Still we should feel boundto adopt it, and to do our best to justify itsadmission were it not for the circumstance that,according to Engelmann, the plant in question is tobe referred to Abies concolor of Ljipdley, Joiivn,Hort. Soc. V. (1850), p. 210, and our own comparativeobservations lead as to adopt the same concolor differs from A. grandis of gardens in its long, straight, soft, leathery looking leaves, which are usually considerably longer (sometimes 2 inches long),distinctly channelled on the upper surface, similar in. Fig. leg.—ABIES CONCOLOR,
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