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the mountains of Orizaba, and near Real del Monte, at an ele- 

 vation of 10,000 feet, and 100 feet high. 



The timber is excellent, and very durable, containing a large 

 quantity of resinous matter, and of a reddish colour. 



It is tolerably hardy. 



No. 71. PiNUS KoRAiENSis, Siebolcl, the Corean Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Strobus, Thunherg, not Linnceus. 



Leaves, in fives, from three to four inches long, slender, 

 thread-shaped, glaucous, pointed, but not very acute, flat on 

 the back, but stoutly angled or keeled on the inner part, and 

 three-edged ; sheaths, composed of long, transparent, very 

 entire scales, which soon fall off, and leave the base of the leaves 

 naked and jutting out. Buds, linear, oblong, and composed of 

 eight or ten scales, of which the outer ones near the base are 

 shortest and obtuse ; those of the inner and uppermost ones, 

 longer, linear, loosely spreading, membranaceous, entire, and 

 dropping off before the leaves are fully grown. Branches, 

 spread out, horizontal, rounded and covered with a smooth, 

 ashy-brown-coloured bark ; lateral ones slender, short, and 

 when young, quite downy, and covered thickly with bright 

 glaucous leaves, which remain on the branches for three years. 

 Cones, straight, almost sessile, ovate-cylindrical, obtuse at the 

 end, and swelling in the middle ; scales, numerous, wedge- 

 shaped at the base, rhomboid, reflected on the apex, leathery, 

 smooth, woody, wrinkled lengthways, and yellowish-brown in 

 colour, with the edges wavy and incurved. Seeds, thick, obo- 

 vate, a little flattened and somewhat angular ; shell hard, smooth, 

 and of a greyish-brown colour. Seed-leaves, from eleven to 

 thirteen in number. 



A tree growing from thirty to forty feet high, rarely found 

 wild in China or Japan, but much cultivated in gardens, where 

 it rarely exceeds twelve or fourteen feet in height. It is found 

 growing along the sea-coast on the peninsula of Corea, and 

 about the bay of St. Peter and St. Paul in the Island of Kora- 

 ginsk, where the seeds are eaten by the people along the coast. 



