Contfere—Larix. 433 
and L. leptolépis is a Japanese species, remarkable for the very 
numerous thin reflexed scales of the small cones. 
Pseudolaria Kempferi, a deciduous tree with clustered 
needle-shaped yellowish-green leaves and small cones having 
loose woody deciduous scales, is a native of China, very rare 
and scarcely hardy in this country. 
4, CEDRUS. 
Noble evergreen trees with rigid scattered and clustered 
leaves and erect oblong or oval cones rounded at the top. Scales 
of the cones broad, thin, coriaceous, entire, closely appressed, 
at length deciduous. Seeds winged. The species or forms 
are natives of the Atlas, Syrian and North Indian mountains. 
Dr. Hooker, who has had opportunities of observing them in 
their native countries, pronounces them to be forms or races of 
one species, whilst other accomplished botanists consider them 
entitled to specific rank. ae 
Whichever view we take see 
of the matter is of little 
importance, because they 
are sufficiently distinct 
in the young state at 
least to be easily recog- 
nised. The ancient name 
of the Syrian tree. 
1. CO. Liban. Cedar 
of Lebanon (fig. 218).— 
A majestic branching 
tree with short rigid 
deep dark green leaves 
and oblong oval pedun- 
culate purplish ulti- 
mately brown cones from 
3 to 4 inches long, re- 
maining on the tree 
several years. Scales 
with a somewhat mein- Fig, 218, Cedrus Litant. 
branous margin, separa- 
ting tardily from the axis. This species was introduced nearly 
two centuries ago, and there are now many hundreds of fine 
specimens in various parts of the country. It is perfectly 
hardy, producing its cones and ripening its seeds as freely as in 
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