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growth, flat, scale-like leaves, which are closely 

 appressed to the branches, and grass green colour. 

 The cones are globular, about three-quarters of an 

 inch in diameter. This species does remarkably well 

 in peat-bog, and the largest specimen I have seen 

 was gro\^ing in the open portion of a larch wood, 

 and amongst loamy peat, rather damp, and where 

 sunshine rarely gained admission. Growing under 

 favourable conditions, this specimen attained to 

 a height of 12 feet in fifteen years. 



CEDRUS, Loudon 



THE CEDARS 



Flowers monoecious, stamens m short catkins. 



Cones oval, flattened at the ends, erect, smooth, on the 

 upper sides of the branches. 



Scales overlapping, closely placed, rounded on the outer 

 margin. 



Seeds in pairs under each scale, furnished with a persistent 

 membranous wing. 



Cotyledons leafy, mostly nine in number. 



Leaves scattered, or tufted, needle-shaped, stiff, and 

 persistent. 



Large -growing evergreen trees, with the leaves either 

 arranged singly on long shoots or in bundles on short spurs. 



Cedrus atlantica, Manetti. The Atlas Cedar. 

 (Synon^ons : Abies atlantica, Lindley and Gordon ; 

 Pinus Cedrus atlantica, Parlatore ; Cedrus africana, 

 Gordon.) Algeria, Morocco. 1843. — In a young 

 state particularly this is hardly recognisable from 

 the better-knowTi C. Lihani, although after a few 

 years' growth its erect habit and rigid branches are 

 sufficient means of identification. As an orna- 

 mental tree, it cannot compare with the Lebanon 

 Cedar, although as a forest tree it may be pre- 



