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Cedar. See CEDRUS. 



Cedar of Bermuda. See Juniperus Bermudiana. 

 Cedar of Goa. See Cupressus lusitanica. 

 Cedar of Japan. See Cryptomeria japonica. 

 Cedar, Pencil. See Juniperus Bermudiana. 

 Cedar, Red. See Juniperus Virginiana. 

 Cedar, White. See Cupressus Thyoides. 



CEDRUS, Loudon ; Bentham and Hooker, Gen. Plant, iii. 439 ; 

 Eichler, Fflanzenfamil. ii. 69, jQg. Pinus, sect. Cedrus, Parlatore in 

 DC. Frod. xvi. ii. 407. (Tribe Abietixe.e.) 



Trees with long shoots and scattered leaves, or with short 

 *' spurs" and tufted leaves, the latter in all cases linear and per- 

 sistent. Stamens in catkins ; anther-lobes 2, crested ; pollen-cells 

 winged. Cone-scales over-lapping, ultimately falling, but leaving no 

 central axis. Scales much larger than the bracts. Wing of seed 

 truncate, very large. Seed with resin-canals. Cotyledons leafy, 8-9, 

 entire 3-sided. 



C. africana. See C. atlantica. 

 C. argentea. See C. Libani. 



1. C. atlantica, Manetti ; Carri^re, 285 ; Veitch, 133; Beissner, 

 303 ; Garden, Oct. 5, 1889 ; Finet. Brit. iii. 217, t. 38 ; Gard. Chron. 

 1891, 425, fig. 



SY^''O.Y^MS: — Abies atlantica, Lindley and Gordon ; Journ. Hort. 

 Soc. V. 214. Finus Cedrus var. atlantica, Parlatore, I.e. 408. Cedrus 

 africana, Gordon. 



Varieties : — Beissner cites the following as varieties : glauca, 



VARIEGATA, PYRAIVIIDALIS, COLTJMNARIS, FASTIGIATA. 



Algeria. 



For garden purposes it is well to keep the Atlas Cedar distinct from 

 the Lebanon and Deodar Cedars ; but the two first, and perhaps the 

 third also, are, according to Sir J oseph Hooker, geographical forms of 

 one and the same species. See Hooker in Nat. Hist. Bevieio, 1861, ii. 

 t. 1-3. 



2. C. Deodara, Loudon, Arhoretum, iv. 2428 ; Encycl. 1060, f. 1975 ; 



Fineturn Britannicum, iii. 225, t. 39, 43, with figs. ; Forbes, Finet. 

 Wohurn. tab. 48, 49 ; Boissier, Flor. Orient, v. 699 ; Masters in Gard. 

 Chron. October 10, 1891, p. 423, fig. ; Veitch, 134 ; Beissner, 305. 

 The Deodar. 



SynojVTMS : — Finns Deodara, Roxburgh ex Lambert. Abies Deodara, 

 Lindley. Larix Deodara, Koch. Cedrus indica, Chambv. C. Libani 

 var. Deodara, Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. (1890), v. 653. 



Varieties : — argentea, aurea, crassifolia, robusta, compacta, 



