48 PINES 



yellow-brown cones with very thick peduncles (stalks), 

 produced sometimes singly but often in whorls, then 

 your suspicions may be justifiably aroused to the fact 

 that you have encountered the Jerusalem Pine. If 

 you went one step farther and examined the buds, 

 and found that they w^ere non-resinous and had 

 recurved scales, then you may be sure that it was 

 either the Halepensis or its variety, the P. Brutia, 

 since they alone of two-leaved Pines are formed that 

 way. But such a chance of investigation would be 

 far more likely to take place in a tramp abroad than 

 a trip at home. 



P. Brutia. — It seems to be rather a controverted 

 point, whether this tree should be regarded as a 

 separate species or variety of the P. Halepensis. 

 Both sport non-resinous buds with recurved scales, 

 and this dissociates them from the others in the group. 

 The shoots of the P. Halepensis are grey, the shoots 

 of the P. Brutia are green. The cones of the Hale- 

 pensis point backwards, the cones of the Brutia point 

 forwards ; and as the names imply (Calabrian and 

 Aleppo), it seems to be more a question of the di- 

 vergencies of geographical habitat that must be held 

 responsible for these disagreements in details. 



P. MuRiCATA, or Bishop's Pine. — From ** Murex," 

 a purple fish with a prickly spine, this Pine derives 

 its Latin name. From its English name, a reader 

 would incline to the belief that the tree has some 

 connection with the Episcopal bench. Though rather 

 indirectly, it is possible that some sort of ecclesiastical 

 connection can be traced. 



There is a certain district in California, within the 

 reach of Pacific sea-breeze and salt-water atmosphere, 

 which was named after a certain Bishop San Louis, 

 and known as the San Louis Obispo country, at least 



