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seeds may be easily separated from them by a very slight exposure to the sun, 

 and then by thrashing them, without having recourse to the kiln. The seeds 

 should be sown, according to Sang, in March, and at such a distance as to 

 allow the plants to rise 1 in. apart ; and the covering, he says, should he a 

 full inch thick. When the plants are 2 years old, they may he transplanted 

 into nursery lines ; and, after being 2 years in that situation, they may either 

 be again transplanted in the nursery, to a greater distance apart, or removed 

 to where they are finally to remain. 



i 2. P. (P.) CEPHALO'NICA. The Cephalonian Silver Fir. 



Identification. Card. Mag., vol. xv. p. 238. 



Synonymes. J^bies cephalonica Arb. Brit. 1st edit. p. 2325. ; A. /axifblia Hart.', A. Luscombeawa 



Hort. ; Koukounaria and Elatos, in Cephalonia ; Mount Enos Fir. 

 Engravings. Our figs. 1940. to 1944. 



Spec. Char. y $c. Cones erect. Leaves subulate, flat ; dark green above, 

 and silvery beneath ; tapering from the base to the summit, which terminates 

 in a sharp spine. Petioles very short, dilated 

 lengthwise at the point of their attachment to 

 the branches ; the dilated part of a much lighter 

 green than the rest of the leaf. Scales of the 

 cones closely resembling those of P. pectinata. 

 A tree. Cephalonia, on the Black Mountain, 

 the highest point of which is the Mount Enos 



1940. P. (p.) cephaUSnica. 



1941. P. (p.) cephaldnica 



of the ancients, between 4000 ft. and 5000 ft. above the sea. Height 50 ft. 

 to 60 ft. Introduced in 1824. 



The bristle-pointed leaves and dilated petioles of young plants render the 

 Ccpha'oman fir very distinct in appearance from the common silver fir, but 

 we doubt very much if it can he considered a different species ; it is, however, 

 at all events, a marked and most beautiful variety. Fig. 1940. is a portrait of 

 one of the branches of this tree, imported by H. L. Long, Esq., of Hampton 

 Lodge, Surrey, to whom the seeds were first sent from Cephalonia by General 



