i6 PINES 



forgotten that it started life with the reputation of 

 the Cembra's double. The number of cones at an 

 early age it carries of sometimes three or four mounted 

 to face around, like guns in a barbette, its vertical short 

 leaves, showing the white stomata so remarkably that 

 its leaves at a short distance appear to be streaked 

 with silver threads among the green, and shaped 

 after the manner of a Fox-brush Pine — all these 

 traits conspire to assist identification, and again, lest 

 we forget, it has been assigned to the Strobi Group, 

 from where no ejectment process can remove it. 



It has adopted as a motto for its family abiding- 

 place the w^ords attributed to Marshal MacMahon in 

 the Crimean Redan, " J'y suis, j'y reste " (Here I 

 am, here I stay). 



GROUP OF CEMBR.E, OR STONE PINES 



O sovran Blanc ! 

 The Arve and Arveiron at thy base 

 Rave ceaselessly, but thou, most awful form, 

 Risest from forth thy silent sea of Pines, 



S. T. Coleridge, Hymn in The Vale of Chamounix. 



P. Cembra, p. Koraiensis, P. Armandi, p. Pumila, 

 P. Flexilis, p. Albicaulis 



The Cembrae are a group of some half-dozen moun- 

 tain-bred (Alpine and elsewhere) Pines, that are 

 chiefly characterized by bearing cones whose breadth 

 is greater — or, to put it more correctly, whose breadth 

 is inclined to be greater, as great, or nearly as great 

 as their length. They take their name presumably 

 from the name of a town in the Tyrol. What the 

 name of the town in the Tyrol in turn takes its name 

 from I cannot say. We may say of them, without 

 any disparagement as to their virtues or utility, that 

 they are just as ready to take up a residence in those 

 localities that have been described as '' Back of 



