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elevated in the centre, with an angular line terminated in the 

 middle with a depressed, hollow scar, but sometimes with a 

 small prickle in the centre ; those nearest the base much the 

 smallest, flat, and hollow in the centre, while those near the 

 apex are more ang^ularly raised, and all of a pale-yellow colour. 



A majestic tree, growing from sixty to eighty feet high, 

 regularly furnished with branches to the ground, and mostly 

 growing intermixed with other kinds in the extensive forests of 

 Spain and France. 



It is found occupying the highest range of the extensive 

 forests in the south of Spain, and in a corresponding situation 

 in the vast forest region on the River Gabriel, in Upper Aragon, 

 and on the Pyrenees, where it is called ' Pin Nazaron.' It is 

 also found near Montpelier and the coast of the Mediterranean, 

 in elevated positions, and attaining a great size, but not very 

 plentiful. 



No. 19. PiNUS RESiNOSA, Solander, the Resinous or Red 

 American Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus rubra, Michaux. 

 „ „ Canadensis bifolia, Dahamel. 

 „ „ Loiseleuriana, Carriere. 



Leaves, in twos, five or six inches long, straight, stiff*, yel- 

 lowish-green, thickly set on the shoots, compressed, and col- 

 lected in bunches at the extremities of the branches ; sheaths, 

 nearly one inch long, white on the young leaves, but shorter, 

 jagged, and darker with age on the older ones. Branches, rather 

 naked, straight, open, and reddish-brown ; the larger ones on 

 the trunk more distant than those of the Corsican Pine (P. La- 

 ricio) ; buds, long, pointed, and very resinous. Cones, pale 

 reddish-brown, shining, hard, ovate-conical, rounded at the 

 base, two inches long, one inch and a quarter broad, and with 

 very short footstalks. Scales, rhomboid, largest in the middle 

 of the cone, slightly elevated or pyramidal, with a transverse 

 ridge, terminated with a blunt scar, unarmed in the centre, 

 half an inch wide, but much smaller towards the base, and 



