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mono-typical distinction and to enter into a kingdom 
of its own, we should have thought that in this most 
curious of trees, that answered to the most prolonged 
and curious of names, we should have found a winning 
candidate. 
The meaning of its name, after usual processes of 
investigation and translation and various other 
prosodian researches, reads ‘‘ Whorled Umbrella 
Pine.” 
This etymological result is arrived at and explained 
by the indisputable fact that in the Greek language 
the word oxd means shade, and that the word ceids, 
in a sort of natural sequence, implies anything that 
is used for the purpose of shading. The Latin 
word representing oxia is umbra, hence umbrella ; 
which, if we are indulging in dreams of derivations, 
was an article of modern use evolved from this Latin 
word umbra. Personally, I must say that I never 
understood, in my educational days, that the Greeks 
in the days of Athenian culture or in any Greco- 
Roman times, used umbrellas, but in a modern-day 
sense the word ‘‘ umbrella” can be regarded as a fair, 
if somewhat a loose, translation of the Greek word 
oKtas. 
It must be further impressed that this tree was not 
designated as an Umbrella Pine for the same reason 
that the Pinus Pinea, Stone or Umbrella Pine—the 
tree immortalized by Turner, Claude, and other 
landscape painters of Italian scenery—was so called. 
It was not on account of the fact that at a landscape 
distance it assumes the sheltering shape of a modern 
Mother Gamp, but for the far less sublime reason 
that its green should-be leaves (more correctly called 
Phylloids or Cladodes), resemble the shape of the 
ribs or spikes of the modern umbrella ; that part of 
the anatomy of the article in question which school- 
‘boys were wont—in the memory and practical experi- 
