1861, p. 286 et Nutzpfl. Griechenl. p. 13; Seemann in Garcl. Chron,, 1861, 

 p. 755 ; Fraas, Fl. Class, p. 262. A. pectinata, var. graeca, Fraas, 1. c. 

 A. panachaica, Heldr. in Regel Gartenfl. 1861, p. 286 et Nutzpfl. Griechenl. 

 1. c. Pinus Abies, Dallaporta, Prosp. , p. 124, non L. P. Abies, var. Apollinis, 

 Endl. Conif. p. 98. P. Abies, cephalonica, Pari, in DC. Prodr. vol. xVi. 

 pars ii. p. 422. P. cephalonica, Antoine, Conif. p. 71, tab. 27, fig. 1 ; 

 Endl. 1. c. ; Unger, Reise Griechenl. p. 121. P. Picea,- Sibth. & Sra. Fl. 

 Graec. vol. ii. p. 247 ; Chaub. & Spach., Exp. Scient. de Moree. p. 274 ; 

 Fl. Pelop. p. 64, non L. Picea cephalonica, Loud. Arboret. Brit. p. 1039, 

 fig. 1940-1946 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. p. 38 ; Gord. Pinet. p. 146 ; Murray 

 in Proc. R. Hort. Soc. vol. iii. p. 141 ; Laws. Pinet. Brit. vol. ii. p. P75 

 cum ic. P. huhunaria, Wenderoth, Pfl. Bot. Gart. p. 11. P. Apollinis, 

 P. panachaica et P. reginae Amaliae, Murr. I.e. — O. Stapf. 



The Abies which forms the subject of our illustration 

 was first described as A. cephalonica in 1838 from 

 specimens raised in England from seed sent home in 

 1824 by General Charles Napier, then Governor of 

 Cephalonia. Loudon, the author of the species, at the 

 time believed that it is confined to Cephalonia. It so 

 happens that in the same year (1838) H. F. Link, then 

 Director of the Botanic Garden at Berlin, collected on 

 Mount Parnassos specimens of a Silver Fir which at first 

 he considered identical with the tree from Cephalonia. 

 But when he subsequently saw the figure of A. cephalonica 

 given by Forbes in the Hortus Woburnensis and the 

 actual specimen of the tree in the park at Woburn, Link 

 formed the conclusion that the Mount Parnassos tree 

 was different from A. cephalonica, and in 1841 described 

 his plant as A. Apollinis. In 1847 Endlicher accepted 

 the Silver Fir from Cephalonia as a distinct species, 

 Pinus cephalonica, Endl., but treated the Mount Parnassos 

 one as a form of the common Silver Fir, Pinus Abies 

 Apollinis. The discovery in 1856 of a forest of Silver Fir 

 in the heart of the Peloponnesos by J. Schmidt, then 

 Director of the Athens Botanic Garden, and in 1860 by 

 Heldreitch of another Silver Fir forest on Mount 

 Voidhias, the Panachaicon of the ancients, in Achaia, led 

 to the publication of descriptions of two more species of 

 Abies from Greece, A. reginae Amaliae, Heldr., and A. 

 panachaica, Heldr., though of these the former had in 

 1858 been referred to by Koch as A. peloponnesiaci. In 

 1851 Wenderoth, when placing the Cephalonian tree 

 in the genus Picea, described it as P. huhunaria, from the 

 local vernacular name. Since 1860 Silver Firs have been 



