278 SKETCH OF THE CONIFEES OF JAPAN". 



taken from Mt. Veitch's cones, show that there i« not only a 'wmg, 

 but a very marked and characteristic one. The rectification of 

 this error is the more impoi'tant, as It furnishes a simple and clear 

 distinction between this species and P, Koraiensis^ the seed of 



which has no wing. 



Siebold's account of this tree is that it is spread by cultivation 

 through all the provinces of Japan, although originally belonging 





to the north of that empire, and that it extends nearly from 3; 

 N. L. as far north as the Kurile Isles, 



The Japanese distinguish a dwarf variety, which they call Fwie 

 tjojo matsu, which means dwarf pine with f\ve leaves. The 

 trees of this species which Siebold observed in the gardens and 

 publio promenades did not exceed 25 feet in height ; but upon 

 the north-east slope of the Fakone Mountains he saw more lofty 

 examples. It is a plant much sought after by the Japanese for 

 purposes of decoration ; and, besides the dwarf variety, they dis- 

 tinguish another kind, which only differs in the length of the 

 leaves and by the more or less stunted mode of growth. In 

 Japan they use the wood for cabinet-making and turning ; in the 

 island of Fezo for the constraction of huts and vessels. 



r 



i '^ 8 ^. Leaves in threes. 



None yet recorded. The Japanese authors, however, still 

 speak of some pines, besides those above-mentioned, having 

 from three to seven leaves on each sheath, which they name San 

 ho 710 matsu, and Kuwa sjo. Siebold, who mentions this, adds, 

 that unfortunately he had not met Avith them. Perhaps, says he, 

 the San ko no matsu does not differ from the celebrated pine of 

 the nine dragons ip China, which belongs to a species not yet 

 described, {Pinus Bungeana, MSS, of Zuccarini.) 



3t Leaves in twos, 

 Pinus Massontana. — Lambert. 



Wo inatsu, Japon., i.e, Pinus mas, sive Ixaro matsu, le. Pinus nigra. ' 



Moh sjo. Sin,, Le, Piaua nigra. 



SjOf vulgo maats, K^mpfer, Am.'en. Exot. 883.* 



* Siebold poiiits out that Tliuaberg in giving this citation, as a Japanese 

 synonym, has overlooked his own statement made in another part of the same 

 ■work, ihB.tMaafs or mafs is the Japanese generic name for a fir-tree, and that 

 with an adjective or conjunctive appellation it ia applied to all the species of 

 pine tree,— as FusjiMats, Aka mats^ &c. The word inaats is, therefore, no 

 pynonym of any particular species. 



