CEDAR TREE. 



PINUS CEDRUS. 



CONIFER^E. MONCECIA MONADELTHIA. 



French, cedre ; Italian, cedro. 



This tree was formerly placed with the larch, with 

 which it agrees in foliation ; now both are included in the 

 pine genus, with which the Cedar agrees in being an ever- 

 green. 



" That noble tree, the Cedar of Lebanon," says Martyn, 

 in his edition of Miller, " has a general striking character 

 of growth so peculiar to itself, that no other tree can 

 possibly be mistaken for it."" 



" Those which seem of the greatest antiquity,"' ob- 

 serves Evelyn, " are indeed majestical. The sturdy arms 

 grov/ in time so weighty as often to bend the very stem 

 and main-shaft. The leaves much resemble those of the 

 larch, but are somewhat longer, and closer set, erect, and 

 perpetually green ; which those of the larch are not, 

 but hanging down, dropping off, and deserting the tree 

 in winter. The cones are tacked and ranged between 

 the branch-leaves, in such order as nothing appears more 

 curious and artificial, and at a little distance exceedingly 

 beautiful ; these cones have the bases rounder, shorter, 

 or rather, thicker, and with blunter points ; the whole 

 circumzoned as it were, with pretty broad thick scales, 

 which adhere together in exact series to the very summit, 

 where they are somewhat smaller ; but the entire lori- 



