120 CONIFEROUS TREES 



Menabilly, Cornwall. Its semi- pendulous habit 

 renders it an elegant species well worthy of culti- 

 vation. In the Eastern Himalayas it sometimes 

 attains to an immense size, and trees up to 200 

 feet high have been recorded. The cones are 

 much smaller than those of P. morinda, rarely 

 exceeding 3 inches in length by i inch in diameter. 



PINUS, LinncBus 



THE PINES 



Flowers monoecious ; males in catkins ; females solitary 

 and terminal. 



Cones woody, conical in shape, usually ripening in the 

 second year. 



Scales persistent and imbricated. 



Seeds with a hard, bony covering, oval in shape, and 

 usually furnished with an ample wing, or wingless. 



Cotyledons entire, variable in number. 



Leaves in tufts, persistent, and in sheaths of two, three, 

 or five in number ; seldom only one. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs, with the leaves in tufts of 

 two, three, or five. 



PiNUS ALBiCAULis, Eugelmanu, (Synonyms : 

 P. flexilis, Balfour ; P. cembroides, Newberry ; P. 

 Shasta, Carriere ; P. flexilis albicaulis, Engelmann.) 

 Coast ranges of British Columbia, Sub- Alpine belts 

 of the Rocky Mountains and Sierras. 1852. — In 

 a young state this is a neat-growing tree of rather 

 pronounced conical outline, with the lower branches 

 horizontal and the upper ascending. The appear- 

 ance of the foliage is like that of P. Cembra, being 

 in colour a dark, rather sombre green, each leaf 

 fully 2 inches long, but in this as well as size of 



