LXXVII. CONI‘/FERE CEDRUS. 1057 
1973. 1. americana. 
80 or 100 feet high, and only 2 or 3 feet in diameter. Its numerous branches, 
except near the summit, are horizontal or declining. The bark is smooth and 
shining on the trunk and larger branches, but rugged on the smaller branches. 
The leaves are flexible, and shorter than those of the European species. The 
cones are small and erect ; green in spring, and generally brown when ripe, 
but sometimes they are found of a violet colour. The wood, Michaux says, is 
equal to that of the European larch, being exceedingly strong, and singularly 
durable. In Britain, it can only be considered as a curious or ornamental 
tree. Seeds are sometimes ripened in this country, and are also sometimes 
imported; in consequence of which, both varieties are not uncommon in the 
nurseries, 
Genus V. 
lela 
CEDRUS Barrel. Tue Cepar. Lm. Syst. Monce‘cia Monadélphia. 
Identification. Barrelier, Plante per Galliam, &c., observate, &c., Ic., 499. 
Synonymes. Pinus Lin. in part; Abies Potr, in part ; Larix Tourn. in part; Cédre, Fr. ; Ceder, 
Ger. ; Cedro, Ital. . 
Derivation. Some suppose the word Cedrus to be derived from Cedron, a brook in Judea, on the 
banks of which the cedar of Lebanon was once plentiful: others from kazé, 1 burn ; from the wood 
of some of the kinds of cedar being burned as incense: and others, from the Arabic kedvoum, or 
kédre, power 
Gen. Char, The same as in Larix; but with the carpels separating from the 
axis, and the leaves evergreen. Cones erect, large, solitary. Anthers 
crowned by an elliptical scabrous crest. Carpels coriaceous, compressed, 
deciduous. 
Leaves simple, in alternate fascicles, exstipulate, evergreen ; linear. 
Flqwers yellowish, powdery. — Trees majestic in form, and evergreen ; na- 
tives of Asia and Africa, with large spreading branches. Extremely orna- 
mental, and one species producing excellent timber. 
2 1. C. Lipa‘wit Barr. The Cedar of Lebanon, 
Identification. Barrel. Ic., 499. ; Edw, Ornith., t. 188. Rae, : 
Synonymes. Pinus Cédrus Lin. Sp. Pl. 1420.5 P. foliis fasciculatis, &ce. Du Roi Harbk. ed. Pott. 
2. p. 120.; Larix Cédrus Mill. Dict. No. 3.; Larix orientalis Tourn. Ins. p. 586.; Cedrus magna 
Dod. Pempt. 867.; C.conifera Bauh. Pin. p. 490.5 C. pheenicea Renealm. Sp. p. 47.; Cedrus 
Bell, It. p. 162.; Abvies Cedrus Poir. Dict. Encyc. 6. p. 510. ; 
Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., 1. t. 132.; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 51.3 the plates of this tree in Arb. 
Brit., lst edit., vol. viii. ; and our fig. 1974. 3 
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