THD GROUP OF PINES 35 
no place of notice in our elementary efforts at the 
elucidation of the trees more in our midst. 
The P. TorrREYANA need not trouble the identi- 
fying intelligence of the looker around, since it is 
supposed there is hardly a living specimen extant 
‘with us. 
THAD GROUP OF TERNATE PINES 
P. CouLTERI, SABINIANA, JEFFREYI!, TUBERCULATA, 
Rapiata (or Insicnis), PatTuLa, TEOCOTE, 
Ricipa, SEROTINA, PaLustTRis, Tapa, CaNna- 
RIENSIS. 
Forth they went into the fone 
Bringing firewood to the wi 
ee pine cones for the bu ing, 
By the emai that still were ee 
By the glimmering, flickering firelight. 
LoncFELLow, Song of Hiawatha. 
Numerically, this group presents rather a formid- 
able list. The frightfulness of the length is consider- 
ably diminished by the fact that one and only one, 
the P. Radiata, more familiarly known as the P. 
Insignis in England, if not in America, is in what 
we may call a state of common cultivation with us. 
The four last mentioned in the list of twelve are 
practically non-existent with us, while among the 
others there are those that severally might be de- 
scribed as uncommon, inclined to be uncongenial, or 
very rare, in the British Isles. 
The Latin word Tzda—the equivalent of the Greek 
word 8460s, the genitive case of the noun substantive 
Sds—claims the honour of responsibility for the 
appropriate name given to the group. 
When translated it will be found that these words of 
learned length, and in one instance (the Teocote) of still 
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