THE TRUE PINES. 165 



No. 4. PiNUS CONTORTA, Douglas, the Twisted-branched Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus M'Intoshiana, Carriere. 

 „ ,, M'Intoshiana, Lawson. 

 „ „ Boursieri, Carriere. 



Leaves, in twos, but sometimes in threes on the young plants, 

 two inches long, stout, sharp-pointed, and closely placed on the 

 shoots, rounded on the outer part, and concave or channelled on 

 the inner face ; sheaths, very short, and composed of a few loose, 

 shrivelled, dark-brown scales, full of resinous matter. Branches, 

 horizontal, spreading, very much twisted, slender, and much 

 resembling those of Pinus inops, or Banksiana, when old. Cones, 

 small, ovate-pointed, tapering most to the apex, clustered round 

 the branches, from two to two inches and a half long, and from 

 three quarters to one inch in diameter in the widest part, nearly 

 straight, or very slightly curved, compact, and smooth on the 

 surface. Scales, thickened at the base, tetragonal, transversely 

 keeled, blunt-pointed, a little depressed in the centre, and 

 furnished with a small deciduous prickle in the middle j those 

 nearest the base being much smaller, and nearly level. 



A small tree, growing not more than fifteen or twenty feet 

 high, with a twisted, scrubby appearance, found abundantly in 

 swampy places near the sea coast at Cape Disappointment, 

 and Cape Lookout, on the north-west coast of North America. 

 It was also found by the French travellers, M. Boursier and 

 M. Eiviere, in Northern California, in similar situations. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 5. Pinus Halepensis, Alton, the Aleppo, or Jerusalem Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Hierosolymitana, Du Hamel. 

 „ „ Genuensis, Cook. 

 „ „ Halepensis minor, Loudon. 



Leaves, in twos, but not very unfrequently in threes, of a deep 

 green, two inches and a half to three inches long, thickly clothing 

 the younger branches, and very slender, but never remaining 

 longer on the branches than two years, in consequence of which 

 the branches of old trees have a naked appearance, and the 



