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texture is rather close, and presents a certain homogeneousness, but 
is less heavy than that of the Green Cedar. 
The differences which exist in the height and the colour of the 
leaves of these two trees are, besides, so apparent, that, to an eye 
a little practised, the difference between them may be easily dis- 
tinguished at a distance. 
M. Durien went over the same forest of cedars that had been 
gone over by M. Renou, and found there were not two species, as 
had been presumed on entirely incorrect information, and it was 
difficult to consider them even as simple varieties. The colour of 
the foliage depended upon various circumstances, but principally 
upon the age of the tree. In fact, says our learned traveller, I 
have observed a large number of cedars which present the two tints 
of foliage strongly marked, with intermediate shades, on the same 
tree ; yet some of the largest, and consequently the oldest, trees 
presented only the silvery colour, which gave to them an appearance 
quite peculiar. 
If the observations made by M. Renou are exact, it appears 
evident that there are two varieties of cedars in the forest of Blidah, 
the Green Cedar, and the Silver Cedar, and admitting the accuracy 
of the observations of M. Durien, they do not prove that M. Renou 
is mistaken. It may, in fact, be possible that the leaves of the 
Silver Cedar do not take the silvery tint until a certain age. It is 
not known that the leaves of the Cedar of Lebanon take the white 
colour when they grow old. Nothing of this is recorded as having 
been observed upon Mount Lebanon, where there are very aged trees ; 
nor in England, where some are already in a state of decrepitude ; 
nor yet in France, where many are approaching maturity, if they 
have not yet reached it. 
Cedrus Deodara (the Deodar, or Indian Cedar).—Roxburgh, 
the first naturalist who observed the Indian Cedar, gave it the 
name of Cedrus Deodara. The common name, ‘ Indian Cedar,” 
recalls its native country. The Indians call it “ Devadaru” or 
“ Devdar,” says Roxburgh, and they consider it a sacred tree. This 
tree is chiefly known from what has been said about it by Lambert 
and Loudon, and from botanists and travellers, who have observed 
it in its native habitats in India. From these sources we learn that 
the Indian Cedar is a native of the north of India, in Nepaul, and 
the Indo-Tartar mountains, where it is sometimes found growing at 
the height of 4500 feet above the level of the sea. Its botanical 
characters are the same as those of the Cedar of Lebanon ; but its 
