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silvery whiteness ; but several specimens that I 

 have examined under this name should really be 

 assigned to the glaucous form of the Mount Atlas 

 Cedar. 



C. LiBANi BREVIFOLIA, Hooker /., has shorter 

 leaves than the species, but in my opinion it is 

 a decidedly inferior tree in point of ornament. 

 Introduced from Cyprus in 1881. 



C. LiBANi DECIDUA, CaYviere, is one of the 

 most interesting and remarkable of the many 

 varieties of the tree. Though the whole of the 

 foliage is not shed at the same time, still suffi- 

 cient is to warrant the use of the name deciduous, 

 and some curious errors have been made by sup- 

 posing the tree to be dying off or in a bad state 

 of health. The largest specimen I have seen is 

 growing on Lord Derby's Holwood property, in 

 Kent, and where for many years I noticed the 

 late autumn shedding of the foliage, curiously 

 bare appearance of the tree in winter, and shoot- 

 ing forth of the young leaves in spring. Further 

 than the annual casting of the leaves, I could 

 detect no difference between the species and 

 variety either in the male or female cones, or in 

 the length or colour of foliage ; generally, how- 

 ever, the leaves are shorter, and the cones sparsely 

 produced, when compared with the ordinary run 

 of the Lebanon Cedar. The specimen referred to 

 is in perfect health, and about 65 feet high. 



C. LiBANi NANA, Loiidon. — This is of very 

 dwarf growth, specimens upwards of twenty years 

 old being only 4 feet in height, and about the same 

 in branch spread, obtusely cone-shaped, and 

 abundantly supplied with dark green foHage. 



