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PINTTS ; OK 



PiNus Strobus alba, Loudon. 

 Syn. Pinus Strobus brevifolia, Booth. 

 „ „ ., compressa, Loddiyes. 



„ „ nivea, Booth. 



This variety has much shorter, and more silvery white leaves, 

 with the leaves growing more compressed round the shoots than 

 the common Weymouth Pine, but in no other respect does it 

 differ. 



PiNUS Strobus nana. Knight. 



Syn. Pinus Strobus umbraculifera, Hort. 



„ „ „ tabuliformis, Hort. 



A very dwarf variety, growing not more than one or two feet 

 high, but with a dense spreading head, of a flat tabular form, 

 with very small short leaves and branches, and quite a miniature. 



No. 87. PiNUS TENUiFOLiA, Bentham, the Slender-leaved Pine. 



Leaves, in fives, very slender, from eight to ten inches long^ 

 bright, shining green, and sharp-pointed, slightly angular, and 

 wavy ; sheaths, persistent, half an inch long, and rather jagged 

 at the ends. Branches, numerous, very slender, drooping, and 

 vertical. Cones, oval, rather small, tapering to the point, one 

 inch and a half to two inches long, and one inch broad, several to- 

 gether on the branches, in a horizontal direction, or drooping 

 position, when full grown, and of a dark-brown colour. Scales, 

 rather small and numerous, half an inch across, thickened at 

 the base, uneven-sided, oval, a little angular in the middle, 

 depressed, with a projecting, blunt point in the centre, and the 

 margin rounded and rather thick. Seeds, small, black, with 

 rather a large wing, one inch long. 



A large tree, found to the east of the city of Guatemala, 

 growing in ravines, and on the mountains of ' Choacus,' in the 

 province of Vera Paz, at an elevation of 5,000 feet, growing 

 100 feet high, and from three to five feet in diameter, forming 

 dense forests, where scarcely any other plants can exist. 



It is very tender, and unfit for the climate of England. 



