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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 lin. 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. 
2 2. P.(P.) cepHato’nxica. The Cephalonian Silver Fir. 
Identification, Gard. Mag., vol. xv. p. 238. 
Synonymes. A dies cephalonica Arb. Brit. 1st edit. p. 2325.; A. taxifdlia Hort.; A. Luscombedna 
Hort. ; Koukounaria and Elatos, in Cephalonia ; Mount Enos Fir. 
Engravings. Our figs. 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 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.) cephalénica. 1941. P. (p.) cehalénica. 
of the ancients, between 4090 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 
Cephalonian fir very distinct in appearance from the common silver fir, but 
we doubt very 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 
