20 PINES 
Koraiensis, or perhaps a little larger, but without 
the reflexed scale symptom. Why this tree has not 
been given its commission in the ranks of the Strobi 
contingent is a matter of some wonderment to the 
more superficial among students. We think that 
here is a case when the ‘‘ man in the street ” or the 
casual onlooker would be deserving of forgiveness 
if he failed to apprehend its connexion with this 
group, and if he regarded it suspiciously in the light 
of recusant within a true fold. 
The P. Armandi has pendulous leaves and pen- 
dulous cones, while the Cembra has vertical leaves 
and erect cones; moreover, the former resembles in 
leaf appearance and pendulous arrangement the 
P. Excelsa of the Strobi group. It seems rather a 
stretch of the imagination to perceive any: family 
likeness between their respective cones. They are 
not quite ‘‘ so fine by degrees and beautifully less ”’ 
in shape as some of the Strobi cones, and the Strobi 
seem to put in a claim for a pharisaical exclusion 
of sect on account of this tapering cone figure that 
they affect. We ask again in wonder, Where are the 
signs of external difference between Armandi and 
Strobi? There are, it must be added, some variations 
and mysteries as to their resin ducts (they are median. 
not marginal, as are the Strobi), but these are in- 
tricacies rather beyond our scope and the compre- 
hension of average man. It was Dean Swift who 
complained that he was an Irishman by the’ visita- 
tion of God. By the determination of the Fates the 
P. Armandi has been assigned to the Cembre family. 
There let it bide and in peace. 
This tree is colloquially and variously called the 
White, Fruit, and Cow Pine. 
P. Pumira.—The P. Pumila (not to be confused 
with the P. Pumilio, a variation of the P. Montana), 
