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koraiensis the shoots are similarly pubescent, but the leaves are 

 stouter, and the teeth on the margins more numerous and carried 

 to the tip. The cones of the two trees are very distinct. 



Fig. Si.— pin us CEMBRA and P. KORAIENSIS. 



Pinus Cemhra. — a, portion of shaggy shoot with leaves in clusters of five ; b, leaf cluster ; c, winter 

 bud ; d, section of leaf ; e, smooth apex of serrulate leaf ; /, outer \iew of cone-scale ; g, inner \iew of 

 cone-scale, with two seeds ; h, seeds. P. koraiensis. — i, cluster of five leaves ; k, section of leaf with 

 three resin canals ; I, serrulate apex of leaf. 



As a native tree the species is found in two widely separated 

 regions, the Alps of Cent. Europe and Siberia. In Europe it is 

 distinctly alpine and seldom found at a lower altitude than 5^000 

 ft., occurring to the limit of tree growth at 8,000 or more ft. in 



