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AUBOUETUM AND FKUTICtTUM. 



PART 111. 



the timber is applied to no particular use; but its turpentine is preferred to 

 that of every other kind of pine for dressing wounds. Michaux could not 

 discover the slightest difference, however, between this turpentine and 

 that of the pitch pine (P. rigid a); and, indeed, he says that the resin of 

 all the pines is so analogous in properties, as often to be undistinguishable by 

 the taste and smell. In Britain, P. pi'mgens can only be considered as an 

 ornamental tree; but, from the singularity of its cones, it well deserves a place 

 in every pinetum. Another inducement is the probability of its becoming 

 extinct in North America. Price of cones, in London, '6s. per quart ; plants 

 7i-. Qd. each; and at Bollwyller, 3 francs each. 



§ ii. Laricio. 



Sect. Char. Cones with the outer surface of the scales more or less ellip- 

 tical in shape, with a horizontal rib or line from each extremity, ter- 

 minating in a blunt slightly protruding point in the centre ; generally 

 much shorter than the leaves. Buds large, ovate-acuminate, concave on 

 the sides, and terminating in an elongated point, like a camel-hair pencil. 

 The scales of the buds adpressed, incrusted with white resin. Leaves 

 twice the length of the cones; in no stage of their growth glaucous, 

 but of a darker green than those of any other section of either Euro- 

 pean or American pines; remaining on the tree four years. Natives of 

 Europe. 



1 7. P. Lari'cio Puir. The Corsican, or Larch, Pine. 



Identification. Poir. in Lam. Encyc, 5. p. 339. ; Lam. et Dec. Fr. Fl., S. p. 274. ; N. Du Ham., 5. 



p. i!39. ; Lamb. Pin., cd. 2., 1. t. 4. ; Don in Neill's Hort. Tour, j). 552. ; Lawson's Manual, p. 336.; 



Bon Jard., ed 1837, p. 974. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; Hayne Dend., p. 172. 

 Synonymes. P. sylvtstris i vaarUima. Ait. Hort. Kcw., iii. p. 366. ; P. maritima, ed. 2., v. p. 315. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 4. ; N. Du Ham., t. 69. and 69. f. 2. ; our Jig. 2084., to our usual 



scale, Irom a specimen received from llie Horticultural Society's Garden ; Jigs. 208i. to 2083., of the 



natural size ; and the plates of this tree in our last Volume. 



Spec. Char. Leaves lax, twice the length 

 of the cones. Cones conical, often in 

 pairs, sometimes, but rarely, in threes or 

 in fours. Scales convex on the back, el- 



lil)tic in their general form, 



scarcely angular, and very 



slightly pointed. Male flow- 

 ers almost sessile, elongated, 

 thaving the anthers terminated 



by a small round crest. [^N. 



Du Havi., and obs.) Bud 



(see 7%. 2081.) from Jin. to 



1 in. long; and from f in. to 



\ in. broad ; ovate, with a 



long narrow point, and con- 

 cave at the siiles, resembling 



a camel-hair pencil. Scales 



adi)ressed, and incrusted with 

 white rosin. The centre bud gene- 

 rally surrounded by three or more small 

 buds. Cones varying from 2 in. to 3 in. 

 or more in length ; and from J in. to 

 l^in. in breadth. The points of the 

 scales turned over like an under lip, 

 and terminating in a point which has 

 a very small [)rickle, often scarcely per- 

 ceptible The colour of the cone tawny, 

 and the interior part of the scales purple. 

 Leaves varying in length from 4 in. to 

 (i in. and upwards; generally two in a 

 ilieath on the side branches, but occasionally tlirce on the leading shoots. 



