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and that identification made easier is by way of being 
the leading motif of our theme. It must be pointed 
out that out of the six species only one is found so 
far as occasionally flourishing or in a state of maturity 
in Great Britain, and that is the P. Cembra. 
P. CeEmMBRA AND P. KoRAIENSIS.— 
Aerial pines from loftier steeps ascend, 
Nor stop but where Creation seems to end. 
WorDSWORTH. 
Of all this Cembra group the P. Cembra is the only 
one that we are the least likely to come across in the 
full-grown dignity of middle or older age in any of 
our wanderings round the British Isles. 
The Koraiensis appears in a state of adolescent age 
in a few favoured localities, and specimens of from 
30 to 40 in. may be seen of this size at Highnam 
(Glos.), Tregrehan (Cornwall), and probably a few 
others climatically favoured elsewhere. 
The tree itself was introduced in 1861. A great 
similarity exists between this Korean Pine and the 
Alpine Cembra. The cones are easily distinguishable, 
not only on account of the disparity of size and shape, 
but on account of the very marked appearance of 
the regularly deflexed scale-tips of the P. Koraiensis. 
While the cone of the Cembra is a little round football- 
shaped specimen, and often not more upstanding in 
length than 14 in., the P. Koraiensis produces speci- 
mens of nearly 6-in. length. There are other more 
minute botanical differences mentioned in the tables, 
which are for those to investigate who have time, 
opportunity, or inclination. 
P. Armanpv1, or White Pine of China, was only 
discovered in 1895. The specimens at Kew are 
somewhere about 20 ft. and have borne cones. These 
cones are of about the same size as those of the 
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