60 SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUM. 



account of its producing sucli an abundance of its little cones 

 on the adult trees, and which are smaller than those of Pinus 

 sylvestris. They also name it "Aka-Matsu" (red Pine), on 

 account of its timber being of that colour, and very similar to 

 that of Pinus Sinensis, with which it is frequently confounded.* 



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 Pinus Halepensis, Alton, the Aleppo Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Alepensis, Hort. 

 This Pine is called "Peukas" by the Greeks throughout 

 Attica, who use its resin to preserve their wine from becoming 

 sour, and put the cones into the wine-barrels for a similar pur- 

 pose. 



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 Pixus Laricio pendula, Carriere, the Pendulous Corsican 



Pine. 

 This variety has its branches and branchlets more or less 

 pendulous. 



Pinus Massoniana.! Siehold, not Lambert, Mr. Masson's Japan 



Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus sylvestris, Tlmnherg, not LinncBUS. 

 „ „ rubra, Siehold, in part. 

 Leaves, in twos, needle-shaped, stiff, straight, acute pointed, 



* Witli respect to the error in the " Pinetum" of having made Pinus 

 densiflora synonymous with the Stone Pine (Pinus Pinea), I may state 

 that botli kinds are found in China and Japan, and that a quantity of 

 the seed of the latter kind was some years ago sent to Europe from 

 Japan, and widely distributed, under the name of Pinus densiflora; 

 but of course by mistake, and out of whicli circumstance arose the 

 oversight of making the names synonymous, the gravity of which has so 

 offended a not over-amiable editor, who is himself equally answerable for 

 the very same mistake, but anterior to that in the " Pinetum ;" for it will 

 be found so recorded, as far back as the year 1850, in voL v. p. 219, of the 

 Journal of the Horticultural Society. 



t The Pinus Massoniana of Mr. Lambert is, as stated by Professor Don 

 (who examined the original specimens in Mr. Lambert's Herbarium, 



