PINUS CEMBRA 7 
beyond ”’ or ‘‘ Never, never,’ as in the richer locations 
of the most favoured sites. Like the Syrian cony, too, 
they take delight in stony places for an habitation. 
It will perhaps be noticed that ariother Pine, 
P. Pinea, also assumes, among many other aliases, 
this name of Stone Pine, and in the face of the fact 
that it belongs to another group, and is of a perfectly 
different appearance, habit, and locality. One little 
characteristic they have in common (these two 
aspirants for the honour of a name), and only one, 
and it is that they both evolve a large-sized seed or 
nut, enclosed in a hard, bony shell, which presumably 
has been considered to resemble a stone. We give 
this as the attested origin of their familiar name, 
Stone Pine, but are under no responsibility for the 
suitability of its application: 
These Cembra Pines are for the most part a smaller, 
closer-leaved edition of a tree than, for instance, 
the previous group of Strobi Pines. Their cones are 
shorter and thicker in proportion to their length. 
The old definition ‘‘short and stout and round 
about” describes the shape of their fruit, if not the 
trees, admirably. 
They may be said to rather represent the bantam 
battalions of the Pine-tree army. 
As the lesser animal sometimes thrives where the 
larger dies, so it is with trees: the P. Cembra not 
only thrives but lives, it is recorded, to a most 
unusual length of years in places which many a 
statelier Pine at a bare sight of would wither, droop, 
and die. 
We will attempt a brief account of some of the 
family tests held and observed in common by the 
members of this Cembran caste. Their leaves are 
of the fox-brush form, and most of the dense arrange- 
ment form of that type. Their seed is slow to 
germinate, and the tree itself is of more slothful 
