2190 



ARBORETUM AND FRUTKETUM. 



PArrr iir. 



all from 



P. BAtiKSlA'^NA Lamb. Banks's, or the Labrador, Pine. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 3. ; Smith in Rees's Cyelo., No. 4. ; N. Du Ham., 5. p. 234. ; 



Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. G42. ; Lodd. Cat., 1H36; Bon Jard., ed. 1837, p. 974. 

 Synony7)2CS. P. sylvestris divarickta Ait. Hort. Kcw., 3. p 3()6. ; P. rup^stris Mi'c/ii: N. Amcr. Syl.,5. 



p. U8. ; P. hudsonica Lam. Encyc, 5. p. 339.; Scrub Pine, Grey Pine, Hudson's Bay Fine; 



Ypres, Canada. 

 Engravings. I.amb. Pin., cd. 2., 1. 1. 3. ; N. Du Ham., 5. t. 67. f. 3. ; Miclix. N. Amer. Syl., 3. 1. 136. j 



OUT fig. 20&t., to our usual scale of 1 in. to 2 ft. ; and//f. 2065., of the natural size ; 



Dropmore specimens. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves in pairs, divaricated, oblique. Cones 

 recurved, twisted. Crest of the anthers dilated. (Siiiith.) Bud 

 ^ in. long, and i in. broad ; cylindrical, blunt at the point, whitisli, 

 and covered with resin in large particles ; central bud surrounded 

 by from three to five smaller buds, as shown in Jig. 2064. Leaves 

 (sec^fig. 2063.) from 1 in. to 1^ in. in length, including the sheath, 

 which is short, and has three or four rings. Cones from Hin. 

 to 2 in. long. Leaves and cones retained on the tree three or 

 four years. Scales terminating in a roundish protuberance, with 

 a blunt point. Seeds extremely small. 

 Description. A low, scrubby, straggling tree, not rising higher in its native 

 country, where it grows among barren rocks, than from 5 ft. to 8 ft. ; but in 



British collections, in good 

 soil, attaining more than three 

 times that height. Occasion- 

 ally, among the rocks of La- 

 brador, Michaux observes, this 

 pine produces cones, and even 

 exhibits the appearance of de- 

 crepid old age, at the height of 

 .'} ft. ; and in no part of North 

 America did he find it more 

 than 10 ft. high. Dr. Richard- 

 son, however, in Franklin's 

 Narrntwe of n Journey to the 

 Shores of the Polar Seas in 1819 

 and 1822, tlcscribes P. Bank- 

 sinna as a " handsome tree, with long, spreading, flexible branches, generally 

 furnished with whorled curved cones, of many years' growth. It attains," he 

 adds, "the height of 40ft. and upwards in favourable situations; but tiie 

 diameter of its trunk is greater, in proportion to its height, than in the other 

 fjines of the country. In its native situations, it exudes much less resin 

 tlian /fMjies alba." (App. No. 7. p. 752.) Douglas found it on the higher 

 banks of the (lolumbia and in the valleys of the Rocky Mountain.s, and his 

 specimens have niiicii longer leaves than are produced by the trees in Britain. 



