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266 SKETCH OF THE CONIFERS OP JAPAN 



» treated of are limited to two, Thunberg's "Flora Japdnica," and 

 Siebold and Zuccarini's ''Flora Japonica;" the former, a work 

 published in 1784, which although very good for the science of 

 that day, is not of much use in the present — and the latter, a 

 costly modern illustrated work of great beauty, of which the 

 portion relating to Conifers was published in 1842. Any other 

 recent works, in which the Conifers of Japan have been described, 

 are either mere compilations, containing extracts acknowledged 

 or unacknowledged from Siebold and Zuccarini, without plates or 

 figures, or consist of isolated notices of particular species in 

 various periodicals. 



The work of Siebold and Zuccarini continues, therefore, 

 if not the sole, at least the chief, authority on this subject; 

 but notwithstanding its general accuracy and completeness, the 

 recent explorations of Mr. Veitch and Mr. Fortune have not 

 onlj' enabled various inaccuracies in it to be detected, but 

 have also furnished materials for important additions to the 

 species described in it. As that work is probably in the hands 

 of few of the Fellows except those w^ho are systematic botanists 

 (a portion of the Society more valued than numerous), it lias 

 been thought that the best mode of making an advantageous use 

 of the liberality of Messrs. Fortune and Veitch will be to combine 

 the results of their experience, and the light thrown on the subject 

 by their specimens, with the previous descriptions of Siebold 

 and Zuccarini, correcting the latter where they have fallen 

 into error, and embodying the whole into a monographic sketcli 

 of the species of Coniferous trees found in Japan. This has been 

 done by the Assistant Secretary in the following pages, and it is 

 scarcely necessary to say, that they merely express his individual 

 opinion, and^ are not adopted or endorsed by the Council or 

 the Society. 



I. — True Pines.. 



§ 1, Leaves Jive in a sheath, 

 1. PiNUs KonAm^sis.— Siebold and Zttccar. 



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Bai'sung-ise, yel Kan sja, vel Kalsjo (i.e. Pinus marltwia). Sinen. 

 WumimaUn (i,e. Pinus maritima). Japon. 



Pinus strohus, Thunberg. Flora Japon., 275 (exclus, Svnon.), 



1784. 



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Pinvs Koraiemh, Siebold & Zuccarini, Flor. Japou. ii. 28, 



t. IIG (1849). 

 4* M Endlicher, Syn. Conlf., 140 (1847). 



