MONOECIA— MONADELPIIIA. Pinus. 159 



1. P. STjlvcstins. Scotch Fir. 



Leaves rigid, in pairs. Young cones stalked, recurved. 

 Crest of the anthers very small. 



V. sylvestris. Linn. Sp. PL 1-118. fnild. v. 4.494. Fl. Br. 1031. 



Engl. Bot. V.35. t. 2460. Hook. Scot. 2/5. Lam. Pin. \.t. I . 



Woodv. t.207. Mill. Illustr. t. 82. Pall. Ross. v.].p.\.5.t. 2. 



/. I,i. Ger. Em. \356.f. Dalcch. Hist. 44./. Ehrh. PLOfA39. 



V. n. 1 660. Hall. Hist. u. 2. 3 1 7. 



P. n. 1661. Hall. Nomencl. 153. 



P. sylvestris, foliis brevibus glaucis, conis parvis albentibus. Raii 

 Syn. 442. Duham. Arb. v. 2. 125. t. 30. Engl. Gard. Cat. 57. 

 t.\7. 



P. sylvestris montana. Matlh. Valgr. v.\. 89./. Camer.Epit. 40. f. 



P. sylvestris vulgaris. Bauh. Hist. v. I. p. 2.253./. 



Scotch Fir. Hunt, Evel. Sylv. 266./. 



In the Highlands of Scotland, in vast natural forests. Light/. 



Tree. Ma7j. 



A tall, straight, hardy, long-lived tree, determinately branched ; 

 the bark scaling off in thick portions ; the wood, or Red Deal, 

 highly useful for building. Turpentine is the natural exudation 

 of the tree, either spontaneously, or from wounds in the trunk. 

 Tar and pitch are obtained by means of fire, or boiling. The 

 leaves grow 2 together, from scaly buds disposed in a quincunx, 

 and are linear, straight, smooth; channelled above; convex be- 

 neath. Catkins accompanied with many scaly bracteas. Cones 

 tuberculated, tessellated, about 2 inches long, useful only for 

 fuel. They might perhaps serve, like the bark, for tanning. 



