306 PINUS, OR 



No. 72. PiNUS KoEAiENSis, Siebold, the Corean Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Strobus, Thunberg, not Linnceus. 



Leaves in fives, from three to four inches -long, slender, 

 thread-shaped, glaucous, pointed, but not very acute, flat on 

 the back, but stoutly angled or keeled on the inner part, and 

 three-edged. Sheaths composed of long, transparent, very 

 entire scales, which soon fall off, and leave the base of the 

 leaves naked and jutting out. Buds linear, oblong, and com- 

 posed of eight or ten scales, of which the outer ones near the 

 base are shortest and obtuse ; those of the inner and uppermost 

 ones longer, linear, loosely spreading, membranaceous, entire, 

 and dropping off before the leaves are fully grown. Branches 

 spread out, horizontal, rounded and covered with a smooth, 

 ashy-brown-coloured bark; lateral ones slender, short, and 

 when young quite downy, and covered thickly with bright 

 glaucous leaves, which remain on the branches for three years. 

 Cones straight, almost sessile, ovate-cylindrical, obtuse at the 

 ends, swelling in the middle, and from four to five inches long 

 and two broad. Scales numerous, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 rhomboid, reflected on the apex, leathery, smooth, woody, 

 wrinkled lengthways, and yellowish-brown in colour, with the 

 edges wavy and incurved. Seeds thick, obovate, a little flat- 

 tened, and somewhat angular. Shell hard, smooth, and of a 

 grayish-brown colour. Seed-leaves from eleven to thirteen in 

 number. 



A tree growing from 30 to 40 feet high, rarely found wild 

 in China or Japan, but much cultivated in gardens, where it 

 rarely exceeds 12 or 14 feet in height. It is found growing 

 along the sea-coast on the peninsula of Corea, and about the bay 

 of St. Peter and St. Paul in the Island of Koraginsk, where the 

 seeds are eaten by the people along the coast. 



The Japanese call it " Wumi-matsu" (Sea-coast Pine), and 

 the Chinese name it " Hai-sung-tse," which also means Mari- 

 time Pine. 



