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no place of notice in our elementary efforts at th<^ 

 elucidation of the trees more in our midst. 



The P. ToRREYANA need not trouble the identi- 

 fying intelligence of the looker around, since it is 

 supposed there is hardly a living specimen extant 

 with us. 



TJEDJE GROUP OF TERNATE PINES 



P. CouLTERi, Sabiniana, Jeffreyi, Tuberculata, 

 Radiata (or Insignis), Patula, Teocote, 

 RiGiDA, Serotina, Palustris, T^da, Cana- 



RIENSIS. 



Forth they went into the forest, 

 Bringing firewood to the wigwam, 

 Bringing pine cones for the burning, 



By the brands that still were burning, 

 By the ghmmering, flickering fireUght, 



Longfellow, Song of Hiawatha. 



Numerically, this group presents rather a formid- 

 able list. The frightfulness of the length is consider- 

 ably diminished by the fact that one and only one, 

 the P. Radiata, more familiarly known as the P. 

 Ins ignis in England, if not in America, is in w^hat 

 we may call a state of common cultivation w^th us. 

 The four last mentioned in the list of twelve are 

 practically non-existent with us, while among the 

 others there are those that severally might be de- 

 scribed as uncommon, inclined to be uncongenial, or 

 very rare, in the British Isles. 



The Latin word Tseda — the equivalent of the Greek 

 word 5a8o9, the genitive case of the noun substantive 

 Sd<; — claims the honour of responsibility for the 

 appropriate name given to the group. 



When translated it will be found that these words of 

 learned length, and in one instance (the Teocote) of still 

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