Lxxvii. conTfer^ : pi'cea. 



io;39 



seeds may be easily separated from them by a very slii;lit exposure to the sun, 

 and then b}' thrashing them, witliout having recourse to the kiln. The seeds 

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

 allow the plants to ri^e I in. apart ; and the covering, he says, should be a 

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



t 2. P. (p.) CEPHALo'MCA. The Cephalonian Silver Fir. 



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



Synunymes. yTbies cephalonica ^rft. ft-rt. 1st edit. p. 2.32.5. ; A. taxxihWa. Hoit.; /I. Luscombedna 



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

 Engravings. Oucfigs. 1940. to 1944. 



Spec. Char., ^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 muth lighter 

 green than the rest of the leaf. Scales of the 

 cones closely resembling those of P. pectinala. 

 A tree. Cephalonia, on the Black IVIountain, 

 the highest point of which is the Mount Enos 



a 



^-^ 



1940. P. (p.) rcphaldni.^n. 



of the ancients, between 4000 It. 

 to 60 it. Introduced in ]8-i4. 



1941. P. (p I ,e|,!,al(5nica. 



and 5000 ft. above the sea. Hei<'ht 50 ft. 



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

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

 we doubt V Dry much if it can be 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 



