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0"520G ; ash, 0'2G ; largely manufactured into coarse lumber (C. S. 

 Sargent, "Forest Trees of North America"). Abietine, a volatile 

 carbo-hydrogen possessing powerful anaesthetic properties, is probably 

 obtained by distilling the resinous exudation of this species and of 

 P. Sahiniana (Watts' Diet. Chem. ed, 2, Suppl. 1 ; Am. Journ. 

 Pharm. 1872, 97 ; U.S. Dispensatory, ed. 2, 1417, and ed. 14, 900 ; 

 Fliickiger and Hanbury, Pharmacographia, 545). 



P. Jeffreyi, planted near Copenhagen in 1870, has lately given a 

 measurement of 26^ feet in height and 2h feet in girth. It has coned. 



P. Jeffreyi is hardly tried anywhere in Norway save at the Botanic 

 Gardens at Christiania, where a fifteen-year-old plant is to be found ; 

 it is 6^ feet high (2 "03 metres). In Sweden this species thrives in 

 the south, as well as at Stockholm. It also grows at St. Petersburg 

 (Prof. F. C. Schiibeler, " Viridarium. Norvegicum," 1886, 390). 



P. koraiensis, Sieb. and Zucc. Flor. Jap. ii. 28, t. 116. 

 P. Strohus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 275 (not L.). P. mandsclmrica , Rupr. 

 ex Pegl. Tent. Fl. Uss. ; Mayr, Monog. Abiet. Jap. 1890, 73. 



Habitat. — A tree growing from 30jto 40 feet high, rarely found 

 wild in China or Japan, but much cultivated in gardens, where it 

 often does not exceed 12 or 14 feet in height. It is found growing 

 along the sea-coast on the peninsula of Corea, and about the Bay of 

 St. Peter and St. Paul in the Island of Koraginsk, where the seeds are 

 eaten by the people. 



By the Japanese it was for a long time regarded as lost, they 

 believing that soldiers from the Corean wars had taken it with them. 

 But when the large forests of Middle Japan were explored, it was 

 found in the colder leaf-tree forests, and in the higher situated fir 

 forests only in few instances, but a tree of first size. It was also found 

 on the mountains of Katyuke. But although it is rare and new, it 

 grows near the sea (Mayr). 



The Japanese call it " Wummi-matsu " (Sea-coast Pine), and the 

 Chinese name, " Hai-sung-tse," also means Maritime Pine (G. 

 Gordon, "The Pinetum," 1875). 



P. Lambertianaj Dougl. in Linn. Trans, xv. 500 ; Companion 

 Bot. Mag. ii. 92, 106, 107, 130, and 152 ; Lamb. Pin. ed. 1, iii. 

 157, t. 68, 69; Loud. Arbor, iv. 2288, f. 2203; Forb. Pinet. 

 Wob. 77, t. 30 ; Hooker, Fl. Bor. Am. ii. 161 ; Ant. Conif. 41, 

 t. 19 ; Lindl. in Penn. Cycl. xvii. 173 ; Hook, and Arnott, Bot. 

 Beechey, 394 ; Spach, Hist. Yeg. Phan. xi. 397 ; Nutt. Sylv. iii. 

 122, t. 144, and ed. 2, ii. 180, t. 114 ; De Chambray, Tr. Arb. Res. 

 346 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 150 ; Lindl. and Gord. in Journ. Hort. Soc. 

 Lond. V. 215 ; Carr. Tr. G^n. Conif. 307, and ed. 2, 403 ; Bigelow in 

 Pacific R.R. Rep. iv. 21; Torr. in Pacific R.R. Rep. iv. 141 ; Bot. 

 Mex. Boundary Survey, 210 ; Ives' Rep. 28 ; Newberry in Pacific 

 R.R. Rep. vi. 42, 90, f. 14 ; Gord. Pinet. 228, and ed. 2, 307 ; 

 Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 262 ; Murray in Trans. Bot. Soc. 



