THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 503 



Taxus verticillata, Thumb. Fl. Jap. p. 276, excl. syn. ; Kcempfer, 

 Amosn. ex. p. 883, icon, cexviii. 



Pinus verticillata, Sieb., ex Parlatore, I. c. 



Var. vaeiegata, Gordon, Pinetum, ed. 2, p. 377. 



In Japonia, Thunb&rg !, Kcempfer ! j in regione orientali insula; 

 Nippon ; in monte Kojasan provinciae Kii, Siebold; in collibus 

 prope Konagawa, Oldham ! ; juxta Nangasaki, Mohnike ; Yoko- 

 hama, Maximowicz ! ; Tokoska, Savatier ; ssepe plantata et tunc 

 in multis locis an revera sit spontanea dubitatur (Franchet et 

 Savatier), Maximowicz !, Oldham ! 



The fact that this fine tree is so often met with planted in the 

 enclosures around the temples has given rise to the surmise that 

 it may have been introduced by the Buddhists ; but the tree is 

 not known in any other country than Japan. Numerous varieties 

 exist in Japanese gardens. 



The so-called leaves of this plant are phylloid shoots, as pointed 

 out by Dr. Alexander Dickson in the Eeport of the London 

 Botanical Congress of 1866. Confirmation of this view is afforded 

 by the subdivision of the leaf-like organs, and the existence in the 

 fork so formed of a little axis bearing at its summit a verticil of 

 pseudo-leaves*. The seedlings have two linear cotyledons. 



Pinus, Linn, pro parte; Benth. et Hook. 



P. densifloea, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. ii. p. 22, t. 112 ! ; Fnd- 

 licher ; Carrier e ; Murray; Henk. et Hochst.; Parlatore in DC. 

 Prod. xvi. 2, p. 388 ; Gordon, Pinetum, ed. 2, p. 233 ; Entjelmann, 

 Revision of the Genus Pinus (1880), p. 16, adnot. 10. 



P. japonica ?, Antoine, Conif. p. 23. 



P. pinea, Gord. Pinet. ed. 1, p. 179, ex parte. 



P. Massoniana, hort. aliq. 



Per totam Japoniam, Siebold !, Maximowicz I, Veitchl, Old- 

 ham I, Wright !, Maries ! ; Korea, Oldham ! ; in China boreali 

 Daniel ! 



Engelmann (I.e.) places this in his §4. Sylvestres, a group 

 characterized, inter alia, by its peripheral ducts. In the type 

 specimens of Siebold in the Kew herbarium, however, I find the 

 resin-canals variable, the larger ones often parenchymatous. 



* Masters, ' Vegetable Teratology,' p. 523, adnot. ; Carriere, in ' Revue Hor- 

 ticole,' 168, p. 150, cum ic. 



