56 ADDISONIA 
with the Pinus Massontana of China, an error which has persisted 
up to the present day, for it is now sometimes offered for sale under 
that name. It was not until 1868 that the mistake was detected, 
and was rectified by Parlatore who gave to it the name it now bears. 
There are two varieties of this species in cultivation: one is 
known as Oculis-draconts, in which the leaves are marked with two 
yellow bands, giving the tufts of leaves as seen from above, an 
appearance of alternate yellow and green rings—hence its varietal 
name, which means dragon-eye; and the other, variegata, which has 
the leaves wholly or partly yellow or yellowish white. 
The genus Pinus contains about eighty known species, of wide 
distribution in the northern hemisphere, extending from the arctic 
circle to Mexico and the West Indies, and in the Old World to 
northern Africa and the Malayan archipelago. In tropical and 
subtropical regions it is confined mainly to the mountains. While 
some few species are dwarf and shrubby, most of them are trees, 
some tall, and, when mature, extremely picturesque. The needle- 
shaped leaves are usually in bundles of two to five, commonly with a 
scarious sheath at the base of the bundle. The flowers are of two 
kinds, borne on the same tree: the staminate in aments which appear 
in the spring and are conspicuous on account of their color and 
abundance; and the less conspicuous pistillate, which develop into 
cones, 
of fifty feet, rarely e, the trunk, i re specimens, bein 
flexuous or contorte covered wi arial brown deeply 
fissured bark; the = is usually open, owing to the naked condition 
e r parts of the branchlets, exposing the characteristic 
appearance of the t e branche so orted o 
flexuous and usually somewhat pendulous; the branchlets, in whorls 
of three to five, have a pale reddish ish 
white buds, abruptly acuminate at 
tly a the apex, 
three quarters of an inch long, and have actimitiate Heoartencectate 
scales which are ciliate with long ai hairs. The leaves, two in 
margins so ee a measure up ss foes or five inches Pag. 
The staminate flowers are in aments up to an inch long. The 
ate cones, pale reddish SIO eE are about two inches long 
and an inch in diameter; the oblong scales = the apex rhomboidal, 
with a wane depressed keel at the cen 
“CS EORGE V. NASH. 
EXPLANATION OF PiaTe. Fig. 1.—Fruiting branch. Fig. 2.—Apex of skapaes 
showing terminal bud and young cones. Fig. 3.—Staminate aments. Fig. 4 
Seale of ament, side view, X4. Fig. 5.—Scale of ament, front view, <4. 
