THE MOUNTAIN PINE 63 



with in these direful places than this Leucodermis 

 tree and mountain product from Herzegovina and 

 Balkan heights. 



P. Montana and Contorta, the Mountain Pine of 

 Europe, and the Lodge Pole Pine of America, to say 

 nothing of several other aliases that they and their 

 formidable list of varieties indulge in, remain the 

 only members of the Pinaster group left unnoticed. 



The Montana Pines take their name from lofty 

 regions whence they come, the Contorta from the 

 often apparent curious twist of its young shoots. 



We have given in the Table a series of their differ- 

 ences, and, acting on the Cornish proverb " Enough 

 is enough, and too much is a plenty," we will en- 

 deavour not to improve upon the occasion by pur- 

 poseless repetition, and only refer to the cone structure 

 part of the question. 



The Contorta, like several of the three-leaved 

 Pines, and the Muricata among the two-leaved speci- 

 mens, sticks to its cones, or its cones stick to it, 

 whichever you will, for many seasons. The P. 

 Muricata belongs to the multi-nodal group of the 

 Banksia clan, while the P. Contorta is only a one- 

 whorl producer of branchlets a year, or a member 

 of the uni-nodal group. The P. Muricata has longer 

 leaves, and the P. Contorta is a practically short- 

 leaved tree, so a little similarity of habit and cone 

 should cause no discomfiture in the calculations of 

 the man who would give them their name. 



The often twisted young shoots — whence came 

 the name contorted — and the persistent cone habit 

 differentiate it from the Montana. Both the Con- 

 torta and the Murrayana, with their many stems 

 springing low down on the trunk from the tree, 

 produce a candelabra effect of growth that the 

 Bungeana and some of the Thuyas sometimes affect. 



