146 PICEA ; OR 



No. 3. PiCEA Cephalonica, Loudon, the Mount- Enos Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Luscombeana, Loudon. 

 „ „ ApoUinis, Link. 

 „ „ pectinata Apollinis, Endlicher. 

 „ Pinus ApoUinis, Antoine. 

 „ „ Cephalonica, Endlicher. 

 „ Abies Cephalonica, Loudon. 

 „ „ Cephalonica ApoUinis, Hort. 

 „ Picea ApoUinis, Ranch. 



Leaves, solitary, flat, dagger- shaped, and standing at right 

 angles on every side of the branches; dark, shining green 

 above, and with two sUvery lines beneath, tapering from the 

 base to the point, which terminates in a sharp point ; footstalks 

 very short, dilated lengthwise at their juncture with the 

 branches, equally and closely distributed all over the branches, 

 and not two-rowed, as is commonly the case in the Silver Firs. 

 Buds prominent, somewhat square-sided, pointed, and slightly 

 covered with resin ; branches very numerous, in regular tiers 

 on the main stem, but branching in all directions in the lateral 

 ones. Cones, erect, straight, cylindrical, tapering at both ends, 

 five or six inches long, and an inch and a half in diameter. 

 Scales, roixndcd on the upper part, broad and entire, wedge- 

 shaped below ; bracteas projecting beyond the scales, Hnear- 

 oblong, with the lower end much attenuated, and tapering 

 graduaUy into a stiff, unequally-toothed, and reflexed sharp 

 point at the top. 



A fine tree, growing upwards of sixty feet high, with a trunk 

 nine or ten feet in circumference, and a spreading head. 



Timber very hard and durable. It is called the Wild Cedar 

 by the Greeks. 



It is found on the highest mountain in Cephalonia, called 

 Mount Enos, or the Black Mountain, at an elevation of 4,000 or 

 5,000 feet, and was first introduced into England by General 

 Napier, when governor of Cephalonia ; but it has since been 

 found on the different mountains in Greece, particularly on the 

 Sacred ApoUo, and Mount Parnassus, also on the lofty and 

 rugged Mount (Eta, on Mount Olympus, and in Attica. 



