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Juniper (Juniperus squamata, Don., and J. excelsa, Bieberst ; 

 Juniperus excelsa is also found at Schipke in Thibet, in 

 Asia Minor, in Syria, and in the Greek Islands). Thuja, 

 Taxodium, Larix, and Araucaria, are forms found in the New 

 Continent, but wanting in the Himalaya. 



Besides the 20 species of Pines which we already know 

 from Mexico, the United States of North America, which 

 in their present extent reach to the Shores of the Pacific, 

 have 45 described species, while Europe has only 15. There 

 is a similar difference in respect to Oaks : *'. e. greater variety 

 of forms in the New Continent which extends continuously 

 through a greater extent of latitude. The recent very exact 

 researches of Siebold and Zuccarini have, however, completely 

 refuted the previous belief, that many European species of 

 Pines extend also across the whole of Northern Asia to the 

 Islands of Japan, and even grow there, interspersed, as Thun- 

 berg has stated, with genuine Mexican species, the Wey- 

 mouth Pine, Pinus Strobus of Linnaeus. What Thunberg 

 took for European Pines are wholly different and distinct 

 species. Thunberg's Red Pine (Pinus abies, Linn.) is 

 P. polita, (Sieb.) and is often planted near Buddhistic 

 temples ; his common Scotch Fir (Pinus sylvestris) is P. 

 Massoniana (Lamb.) ; his P. cembra (the German and Si- 

 berian pine with eatable seeds) is P. parviflora (Sieb.) ; his 

 common Larch (P. larix) is P. leptolepis (Sieb.) ; and his 

 supposed Taxus baccata, the fruits of which are eaten by 

 Japanese courtiers in case 01 long-protracted court cere- 

 monials, (Thunberg, Mora Japonica, p. 275), constitutes a 

 distinct genus, and is the Cephalotaxus drupacea of Siebold. 



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