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divergent as they approach the head of the tree, so as to form 

 the summit into a regular pyramid ; the young shoots are of a 

 violet glaucous colour, and the buds slightly resinous. Cones, 

 small, two inches and a half in length, and one inch broad in 

 the middle, of a gre5dsh brown colour, oblong-conical, slightly 

 tapering to the base, and rather blunt-pointed, solitary, and with 

 a short, stout footstalk. Scales, small, half an inch wide on the 

 larger ones, but much smaller and more numerous near the 

 base, slightly elevated in the centre, and terminating in an 

 irregular, four-sided, projecting, hooked point, slightly bent 

 backwards in some, in others straight. Seeds, very small, with 

 a broadish wing, rather more than half an inch in length. Seed- 

 leaves mostly in sixes, and rather long. 



A beautiful tree, growing fifty or sixty feet high, and from 

 fifteen to eighteen inches in diameter, for nearly two-thirds of 

 its length. 



It is found in most Pine forests from New England to Georgia, 

 but towards the north it does not extend beyond Connecticut 

 and Massachusetts ; is abundant in the lower parts of New 

 Jersey, and still more so on the eastern shore of Maryland, 

 in the lower parts of Virginia, and as far as Carolina, also in 

 the rioridas, on the poorest lands, and on the Cumberland 

 Mountains in East Tenessee. 



Timber, close-grained, moderately resinous, excellent, and 

 durable. 



This Pine, a few years ago, was distributed in seeds, by the 

 Honourable Court of Directors of the E. I. Company, as a new 

 species, found by their collectors in Nepal ; and at the request 

 of Dr. Jamieson, who transmitted the seed to the Company, 

 it received the name of Pinus E-oylei, he stating at the time 

 that it was a noble-growing tree, found at an altitude of from 

 8,000 to 10,000 feet in Nepal; but when the young plants 

 attained a sufficient size, I soon detected an old acquaintance, 

 and afterwards ascertained that the seeds had been obtained 

 from the Residency Garden at Kathmandoo, where the late 

 Mr. Winterbottom had previously observed it a scrubby- 

 looking Pine about thirty feet high, and, as he described 



