238 THE BOOK OF EVERGREENS. 



S. TCrticillata, Siebold & Zuccarim. UMBRELLA PINE. 

 Syn. Taxus verticillata, Thunberg ; Pinus verticillatn, 

 Siebold in Verhandl. Leaves, from 2 to 4 inches long, 2 

 lines wide, linear, obtuse, smooth, persistent, sessile, entire, 

 in whorls of 30 or 40, at the nodes and extremities of the 

 branches. Cones, 3 inches long, 1^- inches in diameter, el- 

 liptic-cylindrical, obtuse, solitary ; with wedge-shaped, cor- 

 rugated, imbricated, coriaceous and persistent scales; 

 bracts, adherent, broad, and glabrous. Seeds, compressed, 

 elliptical, with a membranaceous, brown testa, and mem- 

 branaceous wing. 



A tall, conical tree, varying from 80 to 140 feet in 

 height, with alternate or verticillate branches, and the 

 leaves in whorls or verticils. Murray remarks: "Mr. 

 Gordon, on the authority of Mr. Fortune, says it reaches 

 from 100 to 150 feet in height. Siebold describes it as 

 only 12 or 15 feet in height ; but this is a mistake, arising, 

 no doubt, from his having seen only some of the smaller 

 plants." The same writer observes : "It is a pyramidal 

 tree with dense foliage, and Mr. Veitch informs us reaches 

 the height of 70 or 80 feet ; " also that it is " found wild 

 in the eastern parts of Nippon, on the Koya ridge of 

 mountains in the province of lEiusiu, or, as Siebold writes 

 it, on Mt. IKojasan, in the province of Kii. According 

 to him it should also be found in some other parts of that 

 island, and of the island of SiJcofc. It is, however, chiefly 

 in a state of cultivation that it is met with, its varieties 

 being great favorites with the Japanese, and planted ex- 

 tensively in their gardens and about their temples." 



The Sciadopitys in the Bagshot nursery, England, in a 

 bleak and unsheltered situation, has withstood the past one 

 or two winters without the slightest sign of being affect- 

 ed by the cold, although the weather was extremely trying 

 to those plants which are not perfectly hardy. 



Some of the English growers who have had an oppor- 

 tunity of judging of its merits, consider it " one of the 

 finest Conifers of Japan, or, after the Deodar, of all Asia." 



