334 PINUS KORAIENSIS. 



fissured into numerous oblong plates. Primary brunches short, mostly 

 horizontal, often curved or tortuous ; branchlets opposite or in whorls 

 of three four, the bark of the herbaceous shoots tinged with glaucous 

 violet. Buds small, fusiform, reddish brown, often covered with a film 

 of whitish resin. Leaves geminate, persistent three four years, more 

 or less twisted, mucronate, with scaberulous margins, 2 2 '75 inches 

 long, dark green ; basal sheath O4 inch long, falling off the second 

 year. Staminate flowers in crowded clusters, 0*5 inch long, surrounded 

 at the base by seven nine involucral bracts ; the anther connective 

 reniform and fimbriated. Cones solitary or in whorls of two four, 

 ovoid-cylindric, 2 '5 3 inches long and 1 1*25 inch broad near 

 the base; scales oblong-cuneate, the thickened apex with an 'acute 

 transverse ridge and armed with a short straight prickle at the middle. 

 Seeds small, with a narrowly oblong wing. 



Finns inops, Solander ex Alton, Hort. Kew. ed. I, Vol. III. 367 (1789). Lambert, 

 Genus Finns, I. t. 13 (1803). Michaux, Hist. Arb. Amer. I. 58, t. 4 (1810). 

 London, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2192, with figs. Forbes, Pinet. Woburn, 15, t. 1 

 Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 167. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 471. Parlatore, D. C. 

 Prodr. XVI 380. Hoopes, Evergreens, 84. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II 238. Beissner, 

 Nadelholzk. 215. Masters in Journ. R. Hort. Soc XIV. 230. And many others. 



P. virginiana, Miller, Diet. ed. VIII. No. 9 (1768).* Sargent, Silva N. Amer. 

 XI. 123, t. 587. 



Eng. New Jersey Pine. Amer. Scrub Pine. Fr. Pin chetif. Germ. Jersey- Kiefer. 



The geographical range of Pinus inops extends from the Hudson 

 river southwards through the Atlantic States to the valley of the 

 Savannah in central Georgia, spreading westwards through Kentucky 

 to southern Indiana where it attains its greatest development. 



In the Atlantic States Pinus inops is a small tree for the most 

 part of a stunted and unshapely habit, covering the barren lands 

 and spreading rapidly over fields exhausted by agriculture ; in this 

 region it is used only for fuel. West of -the Alleghanies it attains 

 a timber-like size, and its wood is used for various kinds of carpentry, 

 especially in connection with water-works. The date of introduction 

 into Great Britain does not appear to have been recorded ; it was 

 cultivated by Philip Miller in the "Physic" garden at Chelsea in 1739. 



Pinus koraiensis. 



A medium-sized tree, usually 40 50 feet high, occasionally much 

 higher, with a more or less elongated pyramidal head, the trunk 

 covered with reddish grey bark peeling off in scaly plates 4 5 inches 

 long and about half as broad. In Great Britain the bark of 

 the oldest trees is either smooth or more rarely marked with 

 resinous blisters in transverse lines. Branches stoutish, spreading or 

 ascending; branchlets in whorls of three four; buds small with pale 

 brown perula?. Leaves quinate, crowded along the distal half of the 

 shoot, persistent three four years, slender, almost filiform, triquetrous, 

 3*5 4*5 inches long, green on the convex side, with five eight 

 whitish stomatiferous lines on the flat sides. Staminate flowers 

 clustered, sub-cylindric, 0'5 0*75 inch long, pale rose-pink. Cones erect, 



* Miller's name is thence the most ancient, Itut as it was not taken up by any subsequent 

 authors for more than a century attenvards, the inexpediency of reviving it is sufficiently 

 evident. 



