CEDARS K37 



B. BUDS SIMPLE i.e. THE BUD-AXIS BEARS ISO- 

 LATED LEAVES. 



(1) Terminal bud persistent ; lateral buds from 

 the axils of green foliage leaves which are 

 crowded and numerous on the shoots, and 

 stiff and narrow, linear, acicular or scale- 

 like ; seeds naked between the scales of cones, 

 or exposed. 



(a) Leaves linear or acicular, dark glossy green, at 

 any rate on the upper surfaces, spirally inserted 

 though often apparently displaced. 



(i) Leaves acicular, in tufts of 30 50 or 

 more on short dwarf-shoots, scattered on 

 the long shoots. Buds cylindroid, with few 

 (10 12 or more) pale brown scales ; twigs 

 numerous and short; cones large, 10 15 

 cm. long, erect, ellipsoid-cylindroid, scales 

 thin, numerous, and closely imbricate. 



Cedrus Libani, Loud. Cedar of Lebanon. Foliage 

 sprays terraced. Branches with light brown smooth 

 periderm, passing to black-grey fissured bark. 



C. Deodar a and G. Atlantica have very similar buds, 

 somewhat more globoid in the latter. 



The Larch is the only other tree likely to cause 

 hesitation here ; its habit, cones, deciduous leaves, &c., 

 easily distinguish it (see p. 204). 



(ii) Leaves not tufted, but isolated and 

 numerous, spirally inserted but often ap- 

 parently distichous from being as it were 

 combed to right and left of the twig 

 (pseudo-distichous). Buds scaly, relatively 

 few, those on the lateral shoots sub-opposite. 



