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Show ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 335 13t feet thick, is the great ornament of the mountains. It grows in Nepaul to 11,000 (11,720 E.) feet above the level of the sea. More than 2000 years ago, the Deodara supplied the materials for the fleet of Nearchus on the Hydaspes (the present Behut). In the valley of Dudegaon, north of the copper mines of Dhunpour in Nepaul, Dr. Hoffmeister, so early lost to science, found the Pinus longifolia of Royle (the Tschelu Pine) growing among tall stems of the Chamrerops martiana of Wallich. (Hoffmeister's Briefe aus Indien wahrend der Expedition des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen, 1847, s. 351.) Such an intermixture of pineta and palmata had excited the surprise of the companions of Columbus in the New Continent, as a friend and cotemporary of the Admiral Petrus Martyr Anghiera, has informed us. (Dec. iii. lib. 10, p. 68.) I saw myself this intermixture of pines and palms for the first time on the road from Acapulco to Chilpanzingo. The Himalaya, like the Mexican highlands, has, besides Pines and Cedars, also the forms of Cypresses (Cupressus torulosa, Don.), of Yews (Taxus wallichiana, Zuccar.), of Podocarpus (P. nereifolia, Robert Brown), and of Juniper (Juniperus squamata, Don., and J. excelsa, Bieberst; Juniperus excelsa is also found at Schipke in Thibet, in Asia Minor, in Syria, and in the Greek Islands). Thuja, Taxodium, Larix, and Araucaria, are forms found in the New Continent, but wanting in the Himalaya. Besides the 20 species of Pines which we already know from Mexico, the United States of North America, which in their present extent reach to the shores of the Pacific, have 45 described species, while Europe has only 15. There is a similar difference in respect to Oaks: i. e. greater variety of forms in the New Continent which extends continuously through a greater extent of latitude. The recent very exact researches of Siebold 'and Zuccarini have, however, completely refuted the previous belief, that many European species of Pines extend also across the whole of Northern Asia to the Islands of Japan, and even grow there, interspersed, as Thunberg has stated, with genuine Mexican species, the Weymouth Pine, Pinus Strobus of Linnreus. What Thunberg took for European Pines are wholly different and distinct species. Thunberg's Red Pine (Pinus abies, Linn.) is P. polita {Sieb. ), and is often planted near Buddhistic temples j his common Scotch Fir (Pinus sylvestris) is P. Massoniana |