500 ABIES CILICICA. 



Abies cephalonica is hardy over the greater part of Great Britain,, 

 but owing to its starting into growth early in the season it is 

 liable under certain circumstances of locality and environment to 

 injury by late spring frosts. The rate of growth varies with the 

 locality, being greater in Devon, Cornwall and the south' of Ireland than 

 in Yorkshire and north of the Tweed. Many fine specimens scattered 

 over the country * attest its value as an ornamental tree for the 

 park and landscape, and even for the lawn if sufficient space can 

 be allowed for it, which should not be less than a radius of 

 twenty-five to thirty feet from the bole. Scarcely anything is recorded 

 of the quality of the timber, which may be assumed to be much the 

 same as that of A. pectinata. 



Abies cilicica. 



A tall slender tree with a trunk over 100 feet high and not more 

 than 2 2 '5 feet in diameter near the ground, and when standing 

 alone branched from the base upwards ; f the average height probably 

 ranges from 60 90 feet but much less at its highest vertical limit;, 

 the trunk of old trees covered with deeply fissured, ash-brown bark. 

 Branches in rather close-set pseudo-whorls, the lowermost horizontal, 

 those above ascending. Branchlets distichous, J mostly opposite, covered 

 with pale brown, striated bark. Buds cylindric-conic with yellow-brown 

 perular scales. Leaves persistent five six years, narrowly linear, obtuse 

 or sub-acute, 0*5 1*75 inch long, spirally inserted, those on the upper 

 side of the branches inclined forwards almost parallel to the axis ;, 

 those on the under side irregularly distichous in two three ranks, 

 dark lustrous green with a median groove above and with a narrow 

 whitish stomatiferous band on each side of the thickened midrib beneath. 

 Cones among the largest in the genus, shortly stalked, cylindric, 

 slightly tapering towards the apex, 7 9 inches long and 1*5 2 inches 

 in diameter; scales broadly fan-shaped, contracted at the base into a. 

 short claw, the apical margin entire ; bracts half as long as the scales, 

 narrowly spathulate with the mid-nerve prolonged into an acuminate point. 

 Seeds angular with an orbicular cuneate wing. 



Abies cilicica, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. I. 229 (1855) ; and ed. II. 307 (1867). 

 McNab, Proceed. R. Irish Acad. II. ser. 2, 694, fig 23. Boissier, Fl, orient V. 

 703. Willkomm, Forstl. Fl. ed. II. 109. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 448, with fig. 

 Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 190. 



Picea cilicica, Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 214. 



Pinus cilicica. Kotschy in Oesterr. Bot. Wochenbl. 1853, p. 409. Parlatore,. 

 D. C. Prodr. XVI. 422. 



Eng. Cilician Fir. Germ. Cilicische Weisstanne. Ital. Abete della Cilicia. 

 Vernacular, Illedeii. 



The Cilician Fir inhabits the mountain system of Asia Minor 

 known under the general name of Taurus on which it has a vertical. 



* Notably at Boconnoc and Carclew in Cornwall, Bicton and Powderham Castle in 

 Devonshire, Dropmore in Bucks, Lin ton Park in Kent, Studley Royal in Yorkshire,. 

 Rossdhu in Dumbartonshire, Whittinghame in East Lothian, Hamwood in Co. Meath. 



t Walter Siehe in Gartenflora, 1897, p. 182. 



J Communicated by Mr. Cruden from Castle Kennedy, Wigtownshire. 



