318 PINUS, OR 



grayish brown colour, each scale covering two large wingless 

 seeds at its base. Seeds oval, or elliptic, obtuse at both ends, 

 and resembling those of the Siberian Stone Pine, but much 

 larger, with a hard, bony, smooth shell, of a yellowish- brown 

 colour. Seed-leaves from eight to ten in number. 



A small tree, growing from 20 to 25 feet high, in the northern 

 parts of Japan, on the Island of " Kuriles," on high mountains, 

 and on the hill sides of Fakone. It is also found cultivated in 

 the Japanese gardens, where they call it " Goyono Matsu" 

 (Pinus pentaphylla), and distinguish different varieties, some 

 on account of their small dimensions (" Fime-gajo-Matsu," the 

 Dwarf Pine, Avith live leaves), and others on account of their 

 longer leaves and less stunted appearance. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 85. Penus Peuce, Grlesbeck, the Rumelian Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Cembra futicosa, Grlesbeck. 



Leaves in fives, rather erect, three-edged, bright green, with 

 slight glaucous bands on the upper surface, very narrow, stiff, 

 and acute-pointed, with the upper side channelled, the under one 

 sharply keeled, the margins rough, and from three and a half 

 to four inches long. Sheaths on the young leaves five or six 

 lines long, and composed of oblong- linear sharp-pointed scales, 

 which soon fall off and leave the base of the leaves naked. 

 Branches spreading, and thickly furnished with short, slender, 

 smooth laterals, thickly covered with leaves towards the ends, 

 and naked on the lower parts. Cones in the adult state cylin- 

 drical, slightly tapering to the point, obtuse at both ends, nearly 

 sessile, yellowish-brown, and from three to four inches long, and 

 rather more than an inch in diameter, and furnished with seven 

 or eight rows of scales. Scales an inch broad and three-fourths 

 of an inch long, cartilaginous in the middle, thin on the edges, 

 broadly rounded, furrowed, and wrinkled at the base and apex ; 

 loose, smooth, and shining on the back, with nearly one-third 

 of their surface covered ; umbo, or scar, smooth, and trans- 



