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upper margin convex, undulate or entire ; lateral margins with two short denticulate 

 wings ; base curving but not auricled on each side of the oblong claw. Bracts : claw 

 oblong, | inch wide, extending f the length of the scale ; lamina lozenge-shaped, 

 inch wide, denticulate, ending in a triangular mucro, exserted and reflexed over the 

 edge of the scale next below. Seed-wing about twice as long as the seed ; seed 

 with wing about i inch long. 



Seedling ; * caulicle tapering upwards, reddish brown, erect, stout. Cotyledons, 

 five or six, acute not mucronate, about i inch long ; upper surface dotted irregularly 

 with stomata and grooved in the middle line. Primary leaves half the length of the 

 cotyledons, not mucronate ; lower surface with stomata. 



Var. Apollinis, Beissner, Nadelholzkunde, 440 (1891). 

 Abies Apollinis, Link, Linnaea, xv. 528 (1841). 



This variety differs from the type in the arrangement and shape of the leaves. 

 On lateral branchlets the radial arrangement is imperfect, most of the leaves standing 

 crowded on the upper side of the branchlet, with their apices directed upwards, those 

 in the middle line straight and vertical, those on the sides curved and bending 

 upwards ; on the lower side of the branchlet a few leaves are directed downwards and 

 forwards. Leaves thicker and broader than in the type, about i inch long by ^ to ^ 

 inch broad, ending in a short acute point, bevelled off from behind ; upper surface 

 with a continuous median groove and two to three short lines of stomata near the 

 tip ; lower surface with two bands of stomata, each of ten lines. 



The cones do not differ in any essential characters from those of the type ; and 

 the differences noted by Murray 2 in the broader bract and expanded wing of the 

 seed are trifling and inconstant. 



Halacsy considers Abies Regince Amalice and Abies panachaiaca to be mere 

 synonyms of Abies cephalonica ; and only allows the variety Apollinis, distinguished, 

 according to him, by its acute leaves, those in the type ending in an acuminate or 

 very sharp spine-like point. According to other authorities, A. Regince Amalice is 

 more akin to var. Apollinis than to the type. In all probability there is a series 

 of intermediate forms connecting the type and var. Apollinis* 



Distribution 



According to Halacsy this species occurs in the sub-alpine region of almost all 

 the higher mountains of Greece, between 2700 and 5700 feet elevation. The type 

 is met with in the island of Cephalonia on Mount Enos ; and on the mainland 

 in Doris on Mount Kiona, in Attica on Mount Parnes, and in Arcadia on 



1 Masters, in MS., who states that in var. Apollinis the cotyledons are seven in number, sub-acute at the apex, and 

 about 1 inch long ; primary leaves shorter and more pointed than the cotyledons. 



* Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. iii. 141 (1863). 



* Guinier and Maire, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. 187, figs. 2 and 3 (1908), describe a variety, with leaves like those 

 of A. cilicica, which grows on Mount Pindus in Thessaly. 





