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marked with the scars of the fallen leaves. Buds sub-cylindric, acute, 

 O5 inch long, reddish brown ; perulae lanceolate, sub-acuminate, fringed 

 with silky hairs, at first imbricated, afterwards loose and reflexed. 

 Leaves geminate, persistent three four years, slightly twisted, with 

 obtuse tip, 3 4 inches long, dull grass-green; basal sheath 0*25 inch 

 long, not falling off. Staminate flowers in dense spikes 2 3 inches 

 long, sessile, ovoid-cylindric, obtuse, 0'25 inch long; involucral bracts 

 few, lanceolate acute, nearly as long as the staminal axis. Cones solitary 

 or clustered (in Great Britain usually opposite a branchlet), ovoid-conic, 

 1*5 2 inches long; scales oblong-cuneate, 0*75 inch long; apophysis 

 rhomboidal with a transverse ridge and sharp central umbo. 



Fig. 92. A Japanese dwarfed Pine. 



Pinus densiflora, Siebold and Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 22, t. 112 (1842). 

 Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 172 (1847). Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. I. 376 (1855) ; 

 ed. II. 486. Murray, Pines and Firs of Japan, 32, with figs. Parlatore, D. C. 

 Prodr. XVI. 388. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 233. Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XVIII. 503 ; and Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 228. Mayr, Abiet. des Jap. Reiches, 72. 

 Beissner, Nadelholzk. 247. 



Eng. Japanese Red Pine. Germ. Japanische Rothkiefer. Jap. Aka-matsu. 



Pinus densiflora is met with throughout Japan south of Yeso, but it 

 is found wild only on the central mountains, in places forming small 

 stretches on granite and volcanic debris or mixed with other 

 trees. On the higher slopes of Fuji-yama are large groves of singular 

 beauty, the trunks often rising to a height of 70 to 80 feet and free 

 of branches to beyond the middle, the effect being greatly heightened 



