6. I have no means of answering this query there <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />being no <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0006559 https://www.geonames.org/1861060">Japanese</placeName> specimens of the genus <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant">Pinus</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />here. <choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>it</orig> <reg>It</reg> </choice> is however I think quite as likely that <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0003962 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119036495">Thunberg</persName> may be mistaken as correct on this <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />subject<choice xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"> <orig>..</orig> <reg type="deleted" /> </choice> & it is not unlikely that <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><choice> <abbr>P.</abbr> <expan>Pinus</expan> </choice> Massoniana</name> <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />may be his <name xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" type="plant"><supplied cert="high">Pinus</supplied> sylvestris</name>.