188 PINUS; OR 



chesnut-brown colour. Scales, from one to one incli and three 

 quarters broad, enlarged at tbe base, and elevated into a small 

 pyramid, terminated by a small incurved prickle in the centre. 

 Seeds, rather large, oval, half an inch long, of a whitish colour, 

 and with a wing nearly one inch and a half long. 



A large tree, growing sixty or seventy feet high, and one 

 foot and a half in diameter, for two-thirds of its length, in 

 favourable situations in East Florida. 



It is found covering vast tracts, called Pine-barrens, in Vir- 

 ginia, Georgia, and from North Carolina to Florida, near the 

 sea coast. 



Timber, excellent, and full of resin, and known by the name 

 of the Georgia Pitch Pine. 



There is a variety, viz. : 



PiNUS Atjstralis excelsa, Loudon. 

 Syn, Pinus palustris excelsa. Booth. 

 „ „ lutea, Makoy. 



This variety is said to have longer leaves, to grow much 

 taller, and to come from the North-west coast of America, and 

 to be perfectly hardy even in Germany. 



No. 23. Pinus Benthamiana, Hartweg, Mr. Bentham's Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Sinclairii, Hooker, 



Leaves, in threes, thickly set on the branches, dark-green, and 

 resembling those of Pinus ponderosa, but much longer, usually 

 eleven inches in length, very stout, rather flat, with a slight 

 elevated rib running along their inner side. Sheaths, partly 

 persistent, and nearly an inch long on those of the young shoots, 

 slightly shaggy, except at the extremity, where they are very 

 ragged or torn. Seed-leaves, on the young plants, from seven 

 to eight in^ number, and rather long. Branches, rather nu- 

 merous, very stout, spreading, and rather irregular, with the 

 bark rough. Buds, large, dark brown, much imbricated, and 

 destitute of resinous matter, or nearly so. Cones, in clusters of 

 three or four together, slightly pendulous, and quite straight, 



