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BANKSIANA GROUP OF TWO-LEAVED OR 
BINA PINES 
Green be those hill-side pines for ever, 
; WHITTIER, 
P. Ecurnata (or Mitts), HALEPENSIS, Brutia, Muri- 
CATA, PUNGENS, VIRGINIANA (oR INops), BANK- 
SIANA. 
Of this group of seven there are only two, the 
P. Muricata and P. Banksiana, that are tolerably 
often to be seen with us. The majority of them are 
climate shy, and one, the Virginiana or Inops, has 
never been persevered with, for the very urgent 
reason that it neither brings beauty to bear on any 
scene nor holds out any prospect of profit to its 
producers. 
In the two-leaf-in-a-cluster division the old order 
of class legislation among trees has changed, and given 
way to the new. The Sylvestres group has been 
disestablished, and two groups, Banksiana and Pin- 
aster, set up. Most of the Sylvestres have been 
drafted to the ranks of the Pinasters, and the new 
Banksiana group takes toll from both of the old groups 
formerly named Banksiana and Sylvestres. 
The chief difference in these two new groups is to 
be found in the position of their cones, and, secondly, 
in the’manner of the growth of their shoots. . 
In the Banksiana group, the cones grow not only on 
the ends of the branchlets, but also lower down, in 
the middle of each year’s shoots. 
In the Pinaster group the cones are only sub- 
terminal, or approximately close to the end of the 
branchlet. 
In the Banksiana group the shoots appear in more 
than one whorl, and are therefore described botanic- 
ally as multi-nodal. 
