THE MOUNTAIN PINE 63 
with in these direful places than this Leucodermis 
tree and mountain product. from Herzegovina and 
Balkan heights. 
P. Montana and Conrtorta, the Mountain Pine of 
Europe, and the Lodge Pole Pine of America, to say 
nothing of several other aliases that they and their 
formidable list of varieties indulge in, remain the 
only members of the Pinaster group left unnoticed. 
The Montana Pines take their name from lofty 
regions whence they come, the Contorta from the 
often apparent curious twist of its young shoots. 
We have given in the Table a series of their differ- 
ences, and, acting on the Cornish proverb “‘ Enough 
is enough, and too much is a plenty,” we will en- 
deavour not to improve upon the occasion by pur- 
poseless repetition, and only refer to the cone structure 
part of the question. 
The Contorta, like several of the three-leaved 
Pines, and the Muricata among the two-leaved speci- 
mens, sticks to its cones, or its cones stick to it, 
whichever you will, for many seasons. The P. 
Muricata belongs to the multi-nodal group of the 
Banksia clan, while the P. Contorta is only a one- 
whorl producer of branchlets a year, or a member 
of the uni-nodal group. The P. Muricata has longer 
leaves, and the P. Contorta is a practically short- 
leaved tree, so a little similarity of habit and cone 
should cause no discomfiture in the calculations of 
the man who would give them their name. 
The often twisted young shoots-——-whence came 
the name contorted—and the persistent cone habit 
differentiate it from the Montana. Both the Con- 
torta and the Murrayana, with their many stems 
springing low down on the trunk from the tree, 
produce a candelabra effect of growth that the 
Bungeana and some of the Thuyas sometimes affect. 
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