20 PINES 



Koraiensis, or perhaps a little larger, but without 

 the reflexed scale symptom. Why this tree has not 

 been given its commission in the ranks of the Strobi 

 contingent is a matter of some wonderment to the 

 more superficial among students. We think that 

 here is a case when the " man in the street " or the 

 casual onlooker would be deserving of forgiveness 

 if he failed to apprehend its connexion with this 

 group, and if he regarded it suspiciously in the light 

 of recusant within a true fold. 



The P. Armandi has pendulous leaves and pen- 

 dulous cones, while the Cembra has vertical leaves 

 and erect cones ; moreover, the former resembles in 

 leaf appearance and pendulous arrangement the 

 P. Excelsa of the Strobi group. It seems rather a 

 stretch of the imagination to perceive any family 

 likeness between their respective cones. They are 

 not quite " so fine by degrees and beautifully less " 

 in shape as some of the Strobi cones, and the Strobi 

 seem to put in a claim for a pharisaical exclusion 

 of sect on account of this tapering cone figure that 

 they affect. We ask again in wonder, Where are the 

 signs of external difference between Armandi and 

 Strobi ? There are, it must be added, some variations 

 and mysteries as to their resin ducts (they are median 

 not marginal, as are the Strobi), but these are in- 

 tricacies rather beyond our scope and the compre- 

 hension of average man. It was Dean Swift who 

 complained that he was an Irishman by the visita- 

 tion of God. By the determination of the Fates the 

 P. Armandi has been assigned to the Cembrae family. 

 There let it bide and in peace. 



This tree is colloquially and variously called the 

 White, Fruit, and Cow Pine. 



P. PuMiLA. — ^The P. Pumila (not to be confused 

 with the P. Pumilio, a variation of the P. Montana), 



