272 SKETCH OF THE CONIFERS OP JAPAN. 



nuts, Avhich they eat in their native country, as those of the 

 Punts Cembra are eaten where it is found. An observation made 

 by the Coreans upon the seeds — regarded from an edible point of 

 view — which confirms what is [known to every importer of Fir 

 seeds, is that they keep a longer time good without becoming 

 rancid when not taken out of their cones. In a notice in the 

 " Gardeners' Chronicle " it is said, that *' what seems to be the 

 same species was found at St. Peter and St, Paul's in 

 Kamtchatka in Liitke's expedition. It must therefore neces- 

 sarily be able to brave the utmost rigour of an English winter.'* 

 It is "also there suggested that this may be a showy variety of 

 the common Pinus Cemhra, The cone, seeds, and leaves are, 

 however, all perfectly distinct; the cone of P. Cemhra is more 

 allied to that of P. panijlora; the seeds are differently gliaped ; 

 so are its buds, being short ovate, instead of elongate oblong 



ovate, and the stomata on the leaf are more numerou?^. Perhaps 

 Siebold s figures suggested this erroneous impression. 



2. Pinus pabvifloba. — SiehoJd k Zucc. 



Gojo no Mafsu (i.e. P'lnus p€nfaj>7ii/ll(i), Japou. 

 Go sjit sjo, Sinen, 

 Tsika fii'p^ Aino, 



Pinm Cemhra. Thunb. Flor. Jap., p. 274 (excl. Syn.). (1784). 

 Pinus parviflora. Siebold & Zuccar, Flor. Jap., v. ii, p. 27, 1. 115 



(1842). 



5> M 



99 1» 



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e 



Lindley & Gordon, Journ. Hort. Soc. V. 214, 

 (1850). 



Carriere, Traite General des Conif. 292 (1855) 

 Gordon's Pinetum, p. 236 (1858), 



M Gardeners' Chronicle, (23 March, 1861, and 



6 April, 1802.) 



Cembra foliis qulnis, strobilis elHpticis, squamis, obovatis 

 rotundatis, cochleari concavis, apophysi diraidiato-pyramidata, 

 obtussima, umbone obsoleto, antherarum crista sub nulla. 



Habitat in Jnponiae provinclis borealibus circiter a 35^L.B. in 

 Insulas Kurihs ( 45"^— 40° L. B.) usque procedens. Amat sponte 

 nascens altiorum montium v. c. mentis Fakone acclivia, culta 

 passim in hortis, 



A moderate-sized tree. The branchlets with an obscure 

 cinereous bark, marked with Ibe scars of buds, the young 

 shoots pubescent with a short l)rownish pile. Buds ovate, 



