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much more like the Cedar of WLebanon. ~ Sir 
William Hooker and his son, Dr. Joseph Hooker 
are both strongly inclined to believe that these 
two Cedars are varieties of one species, and that 
the Deodar should be considered as the more 
typical form; the Lebanon Cedar (though first 
known in Europe), being much more local and 
periaps an abnormal form of the species. It 
is certainly a very remarkable fact that is men- 
tioned by Hooker and Thomson in their Intro- 
duction to the Flora Indica as showing the 
tendency to variation in these trees when raised 
from seed; namely, that ——‘‘no Himalayan 
“traveller within our experience has ever re- 
‘““cognised the Deodar at Kew Gardens by habit 
“to be the plant of those mountains, and that on 
“the contrary, we have frequently had the Cedar 
[or tebanon poimted out as that tree.” The 
Same authors say, in page 30 of the same 
Introduction, that there has been supposed to 
be a distinctive character in the cones, the scales 
of the cedar-cones being persistent, and those 
of the Deodar deciduous ; but that in point of fact, 
the Cedars at Kew and elsewhere scatter their 
cone-scales whenever a hot summer has ripened 
their wood. The large Deodar at Kew, which I 
suppose is one of the oldest in this country, is of a 
much darker colour than any other I have seen. 
Joseph Hooker told me he had seen another, 
Abies 
deodara 
