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It is found on the Mount Ajuseo, in Mexico, at an elevation 

 of 10,000 or 11,000 feet. (? Pinus Montezumge.) 



There is the following variety, according to M. Roezl : — 



Pinus Endlicheriana longifolia. 

 (Discovered by M. Roezl in 1856-7.) 



Leaves, in fives, stiff, glaucous, three-edged, and seven inches 

 long ; sheaths, three quarters of an inch long, and silky. Cones, 

 conical, nearly four inches long, and one inch and three quarters 

 in diameter. Scales, rhomboidal, transversely keeled, depressed 

 in the centre ; protuberance, small, slightly elevated, and end- 

 ing in a little prickle. 



A tree about 100 feet high, of great beauty, on account of its 

 stout glaucous leaves, found on the Mountains of Mexico, at an 

 elevation of 10,000 feet. (? Pinus Lindleyana.) 



No. 106. Pinus Escandoniana, Roezl, the Escandon Pine. 

 (Discovered by M. Roezl in 1856-7.) 



Leaves, in fives, very slender, three-edged, and seven inches 

 long; sheaths, whitish, three quarters of an inch long, and 

 silky. Cones, straight, cylindrical, blunt-pointed, three inches 

 and a half long, and one inch and a half broad. Scales, rhom- 

 boidal, transversely keeled, seven lines broad, and five lines 

 long ; protuberance, elevated, pyramidal in shape, and with a 

 terminal mucro. 



This tree, which is very rarely met with, has an exquisite 

 appearance, with perfectly open branches thinly clothed with 

 leaves, and was found upon Mont Tzompoli, in Mexico, at an 

 elevation of 9,000 feet. (? Pinus patula.) 



No. 107. Pinus exserta, Roezl, the Projecting Scaled Mexican 



Pine. 

 (Discovered by M. Roezl in 1856-7.) 

 Leaves, in fives, spread out, three-edged, and from twelve to 



