PIN us CEMBRA 17 



beyond " or " Never, never," as in the richer locations 

 of the most favoured sites. Like the Syrian cony, too, 

 they take dehght in stony places for an habitation. 



It will perhaps be noticed that another Pine, 

 P. Pinea, also assumes, among many other aliases, 

 this name of Stone Pine, and in the face of the fact 

 that it belongs to another group, and is of a perfectly 

 different appearance, habit, and locality. One little 

 characteristic they have in common (these two 

 aspirants for the honour of a name), and only one, 

 and it is that they both evolve a large-sized seed or 

 nut, enclosed in a hard, bony shell, which presumably 

 has been considered to resemble a stone. We give 

 this as the attested origin of their familiar name, 

 Stone Pine, but are under no responsibility for the 

 suitability of its application. 



These Cembra Pines are for the most part a smaller, 

 closer-leaved edition of a tree than, for instance, 

 the previous group of Strobi Pines. Their cones are 

 shorter and thicker in proportion to their length. 

 The old definition " short and stout and round 

 about " describes the shape of their fruit, if not the 

 trees, admirably. 



They may be said to rather represent the bantam 

 battalions of the Pine-tree army. 



As the lesser animal sometimes thrives where the 

 larger dies, so it is with trees : the P. Cembra not 

 only thrives but lives, it is recorded, to a most 

 unusual length of years in places which many a 

 statelier Pine at a bare sight of would wither, droop, 

 and die. 



We will attempt a brief account of some of the 

 family tests held and observed in common by the 

 members of this Cembran caste. Their leaves are 

 of the fox-brush form, and most of the dense arrange- 

 ment form of that type. Their seed is slow to 

 germinate, and the tree itself is of more slothful 



