‘10 PINES 
care to, snatch occasional moments from the many 
counter-attractions of a country-spent life, from 
sports.and games of bandied balls, and not only from 
such pursuits as are of a more pleasurable nature, 
but also from those inglorious—because they who 
follow them are not glory seekers—and accumulating 
duties of county civic life, and they in number are 
many ; while those who can find the time to devote 
a life or even a decade of life to the closer study of 
one subject, and make of it an absorbing and pet 
distraction, are few, very few. 
This must be our apology for venturing on an 
exposition of a few points, and their family differences. 
In two of them, namely P. Excelsa and P. Strobus, let 
it be noted the leaves are arranged after the pendulous 
or flowing-mane fashion, while the other two, P. Peuke 
and Monticola, follow the vertical or hogged-mane 
type. These two modes of leaf habit (commented on 
previously) put up such a different show that the 
P. Excelsa and P. Strobus ought to be discriminated 
from the P. Peuke and P. Monticola at a glance, and 
divided as surely as sheep were ever divided from 
goats by the eye of practised shepherd. This point 
of difference of appearance only carries us part of 
the way. It offers no suggestions as to how we are 
to pick up the Excelsa from the Strobus, or, to give 
them their English names, the Bhotan from the 
Weymouth. As these two trees happen to be pre- 
cisely the two Pines that those ‘‘ who go to and fro 
in the earth and wander up and down it ”’ are more 
constantly encountering perhaps than any other of 
its imported species, it is quite worth while calling 
a little attention to some of their phases and forms. 
P. Excelsa is the larger edition of the two all round: 
It has longer cones, leaves, and basal sheaths; its 
bark is more fissured than the smoother grey-barked 
Weymouth. But a larger and a smaller edition, when 
