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this group, but to that of the Cembre. By its 
leaves, pendulous, bent, and spreading, like several of 
the Strobi Group, it seems to clamour at their gates 
for admission. It has, so far as we can see, been 
sternly. denied admittance on account of the shape 
of the cones it carries. They are thicker, it is 
true, than most of the Strobi, and for the matter 
of that longer than most of the Cembre. The Strobi 
Group, it must be concluded, appears to be very sensi- 
tive on this point, and rather pride themselves on 
this slender cone habit. We discuss the Armandi 
farther on, where its name is to be found under 
the egis of its family group the Cembre. 
P. PARVIFLORA.—We have now only the P. Parvi- 
flora of the Strobi Group to deal with. How it con- 
trived to obtain an entry into this exclusive family 
circle is a matter of wonder to the less deeply 
initiated. Although we may amuse ourselves by 
carping at the position it takes up generically, it 
must be clearly understood that we have nothing 
to urge against it for the position it takes up geo- 
graphically ; on the contrary it is a tree that with 
general acceptance is looked upon as decorative, and 
peculiarly suited to many sites. The tree distinctly 
has its charms, but among the other members of 
the Strobi it looks as a parvenu in their midst. It 
is a short-leaved, short-coned, with short sessile 
stalks (the reverse of a Strobi characteristic), and 
short-grown specimen by the side of its more elon- 
gated fellow tribesmen in every phase. Although its 
presence is rather apologised for by those who have 
placed it there, and looked rather more carefully 
into the details of its passport than we are able to— 
although it is rather hinted even there that it is to 
be looked upon more in the light of a missing link 
between the Strobi and Cembrz—the fact cannot be 
