Illustrations of Conifers. 69 



ABIES CEPHALONICA (London). Var. Apollinis (Beissner). 



Nadelholzkunde, p. 440 (1891). 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 498 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV. p. 740 (1909). 



This variety differs from the type figured in Vol. II. p. 9 in the 

 arrangement and shape of the leaves. On lateral branches 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 1 inch long, 

 y r'o to tV mcu broad, with acute and not acuminate points. 



This fir is intermediate between A. pectinata and A. cephalonica. 

 Murray in a note in "Proceedings of Royal Horticultural Society," 

 1863, p. 141, considered it a distinct species; but the differences 

 noted by him in the broader bracts of the cone and the wider 

 wing of the seed are trifling and inconstant. 



In a wild state it occurs on the mountains in the mainland 

 of Greece. 



The specimen figured is from a tree at Poles, Ware, which 

 was 70 feet high and coned profusely in 1911. 



