p. CEMBRA, KORAIENSIS, AND ARMANDI 19 



and that identification made easier is by way of being 

 the leading motif of our theme. It must be pointed 

 out that out of the six species only one is found so 

 far as occasionally flourishing or in a state of maturity 

 in Great Britain, and that is the P. Cembra. 



P. Cembra and P. Koraiensis. — 



Aerial pines from loftier steeps ascend. 

 Nor stop but where Creation seems to end. 



Wordsworth. 



Of all this Cembra group the P. Cembra is the only 

 one that we are the least likely to come across in the 

 full-grown dignity of middle or older age in any of 

 our wanderings round the British Isles. 



The Koraiensis appears in a state of adolescent age 

 in a few favoured localities, and specimens of from 

 30 to 40 in. may be seen of this size at Highnam 

 (Glos.), Tregrehan (Cornwall), and probably a few 

 others climatically favoured elsewhere. 



The tree itself was introduced in 186 1. A great 

 similarity exists between this Korean Pine and the 

 Alpine Cembra. The cones are easily distinguishable, 

 not only on account of the disparity of size and shape, 

 but on account of the very marked appearance of 

 the regularly deflexed scale-tips of the P. Koraiensis. 

 While the cone of the Cembra is a little round football- 

 shaped specimen, and often not more upstanding in 

 length than i\ in., the P. Koraiensis produces speci- 

 mens of nearly 6-in. length. There are other more 

 minute botanical differences mentioned in the tables, 

 which are for those to investigate who have time, 

 opportunity, or inclination. 



P. Armandi, or White Pine of China, was only 



discovered in 1895. The specimens at Kew are 



somewhere about 20 ft. and have borne cones. These 



cones are of about the same size as those of the 



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