ctottus atlantica. 



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Ck)RUS ATLANTICA 

 (Manetti) 



Deodara 



(Loudon) 



„ argentea 

 (Sort.) 



,, crassifolia 

 (Sort.) 



, , robusta 

 (Sort. 



„ viridis 



(Hort.) 



LlBANI 



(Barreliere) 



,, argentea 

 (Loudon) 



Synonyms. 



Oedrus africana 



(Gordon) 

 Abies atlantica 



(Lindley) 

 Pinm atlantica 



(Endlicher) 

 „ Cedrus atlantica 

 (Parlatore) 



„ Deodar a 



(Roxburgh) 

 Abies Deodara (Lindley) 

 Cedrus indica 



(De Chambray) 



Cedrus Deodara gigantea 

 (Knight) 



,, „ tenuifolia 



(Knight) 



Lai-ix orientalis 



(Tournefort) 

 Pinus Cedrus (Linnaeus) 

 Larix Cedrus (Miller) 

 Abies' Cedrus (Lindley) 



Cedrus Libani glauca 



(Parlatore) 



Popular Name. 



The Mount Atlas 

 or African Cedar 



The Indian Cedar 

 The Deodar 



The Cedar of 



Lebanon 



Habitat. 



Height 



in 

 Feet. 



The Atlas Moun- 80 to 100 

 tains, Algeria 



The "Western 



Himalayas 



Garden variety 



13 J, 



Lebanon and 

 Taurus in Syria 



150—200 



60- 80 



Cedrus atlantica. — A large tree of broadly pyramidal habit, scarcely 

 distinguishable in its maturity from the Cedar of Lebanon, except 

 that the branches are shorter and less tabuliform ; the leaves also 

 are shorter, thicker, and more prickly. "The African Cedar further 

 differs from that of Lebanon in having a perfectly erect rigid leader 

 and straight stiff ends to the branches, all which in the Lebanon 

 plant droop more or less. There are two forms of Cedar in Algeria 

 as in Taurus, and characterised by the same differences in each 

 country, viz., a green long-leaved, and a more silvery shorter-leaved 

 variety. Nevertheless, it is generally easy to distinguish the Atlas 



