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oblong, in dense clusters, and very numerous. Cones, pendu- 

 lous, mostly solitary, slightly curved, and tapering regularly 

 from near the base to the point, from four to five inches long, 

 and one inch and a half broad near the base, with fourteen or 

 fifteen rows of scales. Scales, half an. inch broad, slightly ele- 

 vated, particularly those about the middle and towards the 

 point, while those next the base are nearly flat, and much smaller. 

 The cones are quite destitute of resin, and on footstalks about 

 half an inch long. Seeds, small, angular, with narrow wings 

 about one inch and a quarter in length. 



This handsome tree grows from sixty to eighty feet high, and 

 has the longest and finest foliage of any kind yet known. It 

 was first discovered by Mr. Hartweg on the Cerro de San 

 Juan, or Saddle Mountain, near Tepic, in Mexico, where the 

 inhabitants call it ' Ocote Hembra,' or Female Pine, on account 

 of the numerous cones whicli it produces. 



It is very tender in England. 



No. 69. PiNUS Grekville.15, Gordon, Lady Grenville's Pine. 

 Leaves, in fives, fourteen inches in length on the wild speci- 

 mens, very robust, three-edged, thickly set on the branches, 

 dark green, and very much resembling those of Pinus macro- 

 phylla, but rather longer ; sheaths, persistent, or not falling ofi", 

 nearly one inch and a half in length, rather rough, and scaly. 

 Seed-leaves, on the young plants mostly ten in number, and 

 rather long. Branches, mostly solit-ary, rarely in pairs, irregu- 

 larly placed, and very robust ; buds, very large, imbricated, non- 

 resinous, and thickly set with long narrow brown scales. Cones, 

 pendulous, solitary, stalkless, quite straight, tapering regularly 

 from the base to the point, sixteen inches in length, and three 

 inches and a half broad at the base, with from twenty-eight to 

 thirty rows of scales. Scales, nearly all of a size, six-eighths of 

 an inch broad, slightly elevated, and blunt, particularly towards 

 th^ base, from which a small portion of clear resin sometimes 

 exudes. Seeds, about the ordinary size, with mostly, but not 

 always, bifid wings, which are rather broad, and more than an 

 inch in length. 



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