Deodar, declare that they never saw that plant in the Himalaya! [83] Juniper, 3; yew, _Abies Webbiana, Brunoniana,_ and _Smithiana_: Larch, _Pinus excelsa,_ and _longifolia,_ and _Podocarpus neriifolia._ [84] Larch, _Cupressus funebris, Podocarpus neriifolia, Abies Brunoniana._ [85] A juniper (the European _communis_), Deodar (possibly only a variety of the Cedar of Lebanon and of Mount Atlas), _Pinus Gerardiana, P. excelsa,_ and _Crupressus torulosa._ [86] Since writing the above, I have seen, in the magnificent Pinetum at Dropmore, noble cedars, with the length and hue of leaf, and the pensile branches of the Deodar, and far more beautiful than that is, and as unlike the common Lebanon Cedar as possible. When it is considered from how very few wild trees (and these said to be exactly alike) the many dissimilar varieties of the _C. Libani_ have been derived; the probability of this, the Cedar of Algiers, and of the Himalayas (Deodar) being all forms of one species, is greatly increased. We cannot presume to judge from the few cedars which still remain, what the habit and appearance of the tree may have been, when it covered the slopes of Libanus, and seeing how very variable _Coniferæ_ are in habit, we may assume that its surviving specimens give us no information on this head. Should all three prove one, it will materially enlarge our ideas of the distribution and variation of species. The botanist will insist that the typical form of cedar is that which retains its characters best over the greatest area, namely, the Deodar; in which case the prejudice of the ignorant, and the preconceived ideas of the naturalist, must yield to the fact that the old familiar Cedar of Lebanon is an unusual variety of the Himalayan Deodar.