CHAP. CXIII. 



CONI FERiE. PrNUS. 



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Eaton Hall, 6 years planted, it is 6 ft. 6 in. high. 

 NerriSres, 10 years planted, it is 18 ft. high. 



In France, at Nantes, in the nursery of M. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 5s. each ; and at 

 Bollwyller, 5 francs. 



§ X. Canarienses. 



Sect. Char. Leaves long, slender. Cones shorter than the leaves, more or 

 less tubercled ; the tubercles terminating in blunt points, without spines or 

 hooks. 



i 23. P. canarie'nsis C. Smith. The Canary Pine. 



Identification. C. Smith in Buch Fl. Can., p. 32. and 34. ; Dec. PI. Rar. Jard. Gen., 1. p. 1. ; Lamb. 



Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 28. ; Lawson's Manual, p. 357. ; Bon Jard., 1837, p. 976. 

 Synonyme. ? P. adunca Bosc, according to Sprengel. 

 Engravings. Dec. PI. Rar. Jard. Gen., 1. 1. 1, 2. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1. 28. ; our^^. 2165., to our 



usual scale ; anA figs. 2162. to 2164., of the natural size. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in threes, very long and spreading, rough. Crest 

 of the anthers round, entire. Cones oblong, tuberculate. {Lamb. Pin.) 

 Buds, in the Dropmore specimen {see fig. 2162.), from -^in. to i in 

 and from -5% in. to ^^-in. broad; dry and scaly, white, and without 

 resin. Leaves {see fig. 216-i.) from Tin. to 7i'm. long, and 

 slender ; sheaths from h in. to f- in. long, whitish, membraneous, 

 torn at the margin, and brownish at the base. Cone, in Lambert's 

 figure, 5| in. long, and 2|in. broad; scale 2 in. long and l|^in. 

 broad, terminating in an irregular pyramidal process, at the apex 

 of which is a blunt point, like that of P. Pinaster. Scales (see^g. 

 2163.) 2 in. long, and 1^ in. broad. Seeds a in. long, and ya i"- 

 broad ; flat, pointed at both extremities, with the wing l|in. long, 

 and ^in. broad at the widest part: colour a whitish brown. Co- 

 tyledons, ? The tree throws out abundance of shoots and tufts 

 of leaves from the dormant buds in the trunk and larger branches ; 

 more especially at places where any branches have been cut off. 



Descriptio7i. A tree, from 60 ft. to 70 ft. high. Branchlets squarrose, with 

 stipular, crowded, lanceolate, acuminate, threadlike, and ciliated, revolute 

 scales ; callous and rigid at the base. Leaves in threes, recurved and spread- 

 ing, generally pendulous, very long, slender, wavy, a little tortuous, com- 

 pressed; callous and mucronate at the apex, bicanaliculate above, serrulated 

 on the margins and on the intermediate elevated angle, scabrous, convex 

 beneath, very smooth, shining, marked with dotted 

 parallel lines ; grass green ; 7 in. to 1 ft. in length ; 

 sheaths cylindrical, loose at the apex, torn, a in. long. 

 Male catkins many, clustered, verticillate, cylindrical, 

 obtuse, 1 in. long. Crest of the anthers roundish, 

 membranaceous, entire. Cones ovate-oblong, tuber- 

 cled, 4 in. to 6 in. long, 2 in. in diameter at the base; 

 scales thick, woody, dilated at the apex, depressed- 

 quadrangular, truncate. Seeds oblong, dark brown ; 

 wing membranaceous, striated, obliquely truncated, 

 brownish. {Lamb.) This species, P. longifolia, and 

 P. leiophylla bear a close general resemblance, and 

 are all rather tender ; but, when the leaves and buds 

 are examined closely, their specific difference becomes 

 obvious. Lambert states that this species differs 

 from P. longifolia chiefly in the much more depressed 

 and straight-pointed tubercles of its cones ; those 

 of P. longifolia being hooked. The largest speci- 

 men of this pine that we know of is at Dropmore, of wh\ch fig. 2166. is 

 a portrait, and where, after having been 14 years planted, it was, in 1837, 

 17 ft. high. It is protected during winter in the same manner as P. longifolia, 

 and P. leiophylla. " A plant in the Trinity College Botanic Garden, Dublin, 

 raised there about 1815, from seeds collected by the late Dr. Smith of 



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