164 PINUS; OR 



tion as the branches, and remaining on the tree for years. 

 Scales, rounded, one third of an inch wide, irregularly four- 

 sided, and terminating in a protuberance, with a blunt point 

 in the centre. Seeds, extremely small, with little wings half 

 an inch long. 



A low, scrubby, straggling bush, or small tree, from five to 

 ten feet high, but in good soil and a favourable situation, from 

 fifteen to twenty feet high. 



It is found in the most northern parts of America ; in the 

 district of Maine, Nova Scotia, and among the rocks at Labra- 

 dor ; at Halifax and Hudson's Bay it disappears, except in a 

 few straggling bushes amongst the rocks. Dr. E-ichardson de- 

 scribes it as a handsome tree in favourable situations, and 

 Douglas found it on the higher banks of the Columbia, and in 

 the valley of the Rocky Mountains, of considerable size. 



No. 3. PiNUS Brutia, Tenore, the Calabrian Cluster Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus conglomerata, Grceffer. 



Leaves, in twos, rarely in threes, from six to eight inches long, 

 very slender, and wavy, glabrous, spreading, channelled above 

 and convex below, serrulated on the margins, with a sharp point, 

 and of a bright green colour. Sheaths, half an inch long, of an 

 ash colour, quite entire, and not falling off; buds, three quarters 

 of an inch long, pointed, woolly, and free from resinous matter. 

 Cones, stalkless, generally in large clusters, but sometimes singly 

 on young trees, ovate, and smooth, two or three inches long, 

 and flattened at the base, of a deep brown colour, and remain- 

 ing on the tree for years. Scales, depressed, umbilicate, and 

 slightly concave at the apex. 



A tall tree, seventy feet high, with many large spreading 

 branches, thickly set with bright green foliage. 



It is found growing, according to Professor Tenore, in Cala- 

 bria, on the mountain of Aspero, at an eJevation of from 2,400 

 to 2,600 feet, and resembles P. Halepensis, but is easily distin- 

 guished from that species in its cones being stalkless, and in 

 large clusters, and in the leaves being nearly double the length. 



It yields excellent timber, according to Lambert. 



It is quite hardy. 



