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forgotten that it started life with the reputation of 
the Cembra’s double. The number of cones at an 
early age it carries of sometimes three or four mounted 
to face around, like guns in a barbette, its vertical short 
leaves, showing the white stomata so remarkably that 
its leaves at a short distance appear to be streaked 
with silver threads among the green, and shaped 
after the manner of a Fox-brush Pine—all these 
traits conspire to assist identification, and again, lest 
we forget, it has been assigned to the Strobi Group, 
from where no ejectment process can remove it. 
It has adopted as a motto for its family abiding- 
place the words attributed to Marshal MacMahon in 
the Crimean Redan, “‘ J’y suis, j’y reste ’ ” (Here I 
am, here I stay). 
GROUP OF CEMBR&, OR STONE PINES 
O sovran Blanc ! 
The Arve and Arveiron at thy base 
Rave ceaselessly, but thou, most awful form, 
Risest from forth thy silent sea of Pines. 
' §, T, Coverrpcr, Hymn in The Vale of Chamounix, 
P, Cempra, P. Korarensis, P. ARMANDI, P. Puma, 
P, FLexitis, P. ALBICAULIS 
The Cembre are a group of some half-dozen moun- 
tain-bred (Alpine and elsewhere), Pines, that are 
chiefly characterized by bearing cones whose breadth 
is greater—or, to put it more correctly, whose breadth 
is inclined to be greater, as great, or nearly as great 
as their length. They take their name presumably 
from the name of a town in the Tyrol. What the 
name of the town in the Tyrol in turn takes its name 
from I cannot say. We may say of them, without 
any disparagement as to their virtues or utility, that 
they are just as ready to take up a residence in those 
localities that have been described as “ Back of 
