238 piNUs ; OR 



A tall tree, growing from sixty to eighty feet high, with the 

 appearance of the Weymouth Pine, but with much longer leaves 

 and cones. 



It is found on the highest mountains in Angangueo, on the 

 Campanario ; its chief range being about 8,000 feet of elevation, 

 also on the Real del Monte, in Mexico, growing to a large size. 



It is rather tender. 



No. 84. PiNUS RussELLiANA, Liudhy, the Duke of Bedford's 



Pine. 



Leaves, in fives, rather stout, seven or eight inches long, of a 

 beautiful deep green colour ; outer ones, curved, and thickly 

 set on the branches near the extremities, slightly angular when 

 full grown ; sheaths, nearly one inch long, persistent, rather 

 rough, and scaly. Branches, very stout, but not numerous, and 

 rather irregularly placed round the stem, but sometimes in 

 whorls. Cones, seven inches long, and one inch and three 

 quarters broad at the base, elongated, and pointed, straight, 

 with a very short footstalk ', horizontal, or slightly drooping in 

 whorls round the branches, and with a hard shining surface, 

 destitute of resinous matter. Scales, rhomboid at the apex, 

 forming a small pyramid, with a straight blunt point, and of a 

 dull greyish brown colour, very hard, and compact. Seeds, 

 middle-sized, with rather a short but broadish wing. 



A beautiful tree, from sixty to eighty feet high, with few, but 

 very robust branches, loaded with fine long dark green leaves. 



It is found on the highest point of the ' Cumbra' and ' Car- 

 men,' and on the road from San Pedro to San Pablo, near Real 

 del Monte, in Mexico. 



It is tolerably hardy. 



No. 85. PiNUS STROBiFORMis, WisUzenus, the Long-coned Pine. 



Leaves, in fives, filiform, glaucous, slender, straight, from 

 two to three inches long, keeled on the inner face, convex on 

 the back, and very finely serrulated on the edges ; sheaths, 

 composed of oval-acute, loose-spreading scales, six lines long, 

 which soon fall off". Cones, about ten inches long, squarrose. 



