P. HALEPENSIS 47 
As long as anyone remains on English shores, 
they will have very little opportunity of either making 
trial of the softness of its leaves or experiments upon 
the portions of its harder externals. It is one of 
those many Atlantic Coast Pines that seem to derive 
no homely joys from any stay with us. 
It is dissociated in appearance from the other 
short two-leaved Pines in that its leaves are three- 
sided, while all the others are two-sided or flat. The 
brittle nature of its shoots, their blue-white bloom 
of colour, the complications of the character of its 
basal sheath of the leaves, all give aid to identity. 
But as the tree was introduced in 1739, and there 
appears to be only two or three specimens extant 
with us, any chances for putting into practice a little 
observation on these points are likely to be remotely 
removed from the paths in life that most of us are 
wont to traverse. 
_P. HaLepensis, ALEPPO, OR JERUSALEM PINE,—The 
same remarks as to their scarcity of appearance which 
applied to the preceding P. Echinata refer equally 
to this Pine. It is the commonest of the Mediter- 
ranean region, and though it has, under transportation 
to Australia and other places, thrived and made 
conquest of new lands and countries, England is not 
to be counted among them. 
It is one of those Pines that must be remembered, 
among several others (Pinaster, Thunbergii), as 
achieving success on barren seashores. As a sand- 
dune tree and in the production of resin, it is reported 
to even outclass the Pinaster of the Landes. Like a 
goat, that is said to thrive on orange-peel and brown 
paper, P. Halepensis is quite happy on soilless lands 
and rocks where nothing else thrives. 
If by chance you came across a two-leaved low 
tree, with branches singularly devoid of leaves, and 
