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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111. 



Synoni/mes. P. palustris Willd. Sp. PI., 4. p. 499., Mill. Dtct., 14., Ait. Hort. Kew., 3. p. 368., Pursh 

 Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. 6H., Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 24, 25. ; P. americana palustris, &c., Hort. Angl, 

 p. 88., D« Ham. Arb., 2. p. 126. ; P. serotina Hort., see Bon Jard., ed. 1837, p. 976. In America, 

 long-leaved Pine, yellow Pine, Pitch Pine, and Broom Pine, in the southern states ; southern 

 Pine and red Pine in the northern states ; and yellow Pine and Pitch Pine in the middle states. 

 In England and the West Indies, bv the timber merchants, Georgia Pitch Pine. 



Engravings. Michx. Arb., 1. t. 6. ; N." Amer. Syl.,3. t. 141. ; Abb. Ins., I. t.42. ; Lamb. Pin.,ed. 2., 

 1. t. 24, 25. ; OUT fig. 2159., to our usual scale from Abbott ; and figs. 2156, to 2158., of the natural 

 size, from Michaux and from Dropmore specimens. 



Spec. Char., ^-c. Leaves in threes, very long. Male catkins long, cylindrical, 

 of a tawny blue, divergent. Cones very long, tessellated with tumid tuber- 

 cles, terminated by very small mucros. {Michx.) Buds, in the Dropmore 

 specimen {see Jig. 2156.), rather small in proportion to the termination of the 

 shoot, and buried in leaves. When the leaves are removed, the bud is found 



to be from f to | in. long, 



and from .f^ in. to -j^ in. 



broad, with numerous, far- 

 projecting, white, fringed 



scales; general form conical, 



and wholly without resin. 



Leaves (see fig. 2158.) from 



8 in. to 9 in. in length ; 



sheath from l^in. to 2 in. 

 I'f y long, white, membranaceous, 



v. j~3* and lacerated. The cones, 



2156 in Michaux's figure, 8 in. 



long, and 2J in. broad in the widest part. Scale 

 (/%. 2157.) from U in. to 1| in. long, and 

 l|^in. broad. Seeds oval, from fin. to -i in. 

 in length, ^ in. broad; whitish, with the wing 2|in. in length, and ^in. in 

 breadth, and, as well as the cone, of a rich chestnut, brown ; in Lambert's 

 figure, the scales and seeds are much smaller. Cotyledons,? 



Variety. 



5 P. fl. 2 excelsa, P. palustris excelsa Booth, was raised in the Floetbeck 

 Nurseries, in 1830, from seeds procured from the north-west coast 

 of North America. The plant, in 18.37, was 4 ft. high, with leaves 

 as long as those of P. australis ; and was quite hardy, even in that 

 climate. Possibly a distinct species. 

 Description. A tree, according to Michaux, from 60 ft. to 70 ft. high, and 

 with a trunk from 1 ft. 3 in. to 1 ft. 6 in. diameter for two thirds of its height. 

 Some specimens, in favourable situations, attain much larger dimensions, 

 particularly in East Florida. The bark is somewhat furrowed, and the 

 epidermis detaches itself in thin transparent sheets. The leaves are about 

 1 ft. long, of a beautiful brilliant green, collected in bunches at the extremities 

 of the branches : they are longer and more numerous on young trees. The 

 buds are said by Michaux to be very large, white, fringed, and not resinous. 

 The male catkins are produced in masses ; they are violet-coioured, and 

 about 2 in. long ; in drying, they shed great quantities of yellowish pollen, 

 which is diffused by the wind, and forms a momentary covering on tiie ad- 

 jacent land and water. The cones are large, being 7 in. or 8 in. long, and 4in. 

 thick when open ; and they are armed with very small retorted prickles. The 

 tree flowers in April, and the cones ripen about October in the second year, 

 and shed their seeds the same month. The kernel is of an agreeable taste, and 

 is contained in a thin whitish shell, instead of being black, as is the case with 

 every other species of American pine, and it is surmounted by a wing, which is 

 often more than 2 in. in length. The seeds, in some years, are very abundant ; 

 but, in others, a forest of 100 miles in extent may be ransacked without finding 

 a single cone ; which was probably the occasion, Michaux observes, of the state- 

 ment made by the French, who, in 1567, attempted to effect a settlement in 

 Florida; viz. "that the woods were filled with superb pines, that never yielded 

 seed." The timber is said to contain but little sap wood. Trunks 1 ft. 3 in. 



