2190 



ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PARI III. 



S064 



'i 3. P. BAtiKSlA'^NA Lamb. Banks's, or the Labrador, Pine. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2.. 1 t 3. ; Smith in Rces's Cyclo No. 4. ; N Du Ham., 5. p. IM. ; 



Piirsh Fl Amer. Sept.,2. p. 642. ; Lodd. Cat., 1S36; Bon Jard., ed. 18o/,p. 9/4. „, » 



SunTnVmVs P sylves r s divaric^'ta Ait. Hart. Kcw., 3. p 366. ; P. n.p^stris Michx N. A„wr. Su/.,3. 



p. "8 ">• huds/.nica Lam. Encyc, 5. p. 359.; Scrub Pine. Grey Pine. Hudson's Bay fine; 



E^rTvin7s""l^mh Pin., cd. 2., 1. 1 3. ; N. Du Ham., 5. t. 67. f. 3. ; Michx. N. Amcr. Syl., 3. 1. 136. ; 

 ourX M« , to our "S"al sckle of 1 in. to 2 ft. ; and fig. 2065., of the natural ..ze ; all from 

 Dropmore specimens. 



Spec. Char., >^c. Leaves in pairs, divaricated, oblique. Cones 

 recurved, twisted. Crest of the anthers dilated. (Swifli.) Bud 

 1 in. long, and i in. broad; cylindrical, blunt at the point, whitish, 

 iind covered with resin in large particles ; central bud surrounded 

 by from three to five smaller buds, as shown \nfg. 2064-. Leaves 

 (sec fig. 2065.) from 1 in. to 1^ in. in length, including the sheath, 

 which is short, and has three or four rings. Cones from l^in. 

 to 2 in. long. Leaves and cones retained on the tree three or 

 four years. Scales terminating in a roundish protuberance, with 

 a blunt point. Seeds extremely small. 

 Description. A low, scrubby, straggling tree, not rising higher in its native 

 country, where it grows among barren rocks, than from 5 ft. to 8 ft. ; but in 



British collections, in good 

 soil, attaining more than three 

 times that height. Occasion- 

 ally, among the rocks of La- 

 brador, Michaux observes, this 

 pine produces cones, and even 

 exhibits the appearance of de- 

 crepid old age, at the height of 

 3 ft. ; and in no part of 5forth 

 America did he find it more 

 than 10 ft. high. Dr. Richard- 

 son, however, in Franklin's 

 Narrative of a Journey to the 

 Shores of the Polar Sens in 1819 

 and 1822, describes P. Bank- 



si^na as a « handsome tree, with long, spreading, ^f ^i';'^^;;'-^"^i';^,^;S"he 

 furnished with whorled curved cones, of many years growth It attains he 

 adds "the height of -iO ft. and upwards m favourable situations but the 

 diam'eter of its trunk is greater, in proportion to its height, than in the other 

 p nes o the countrv. In its natiVe situations, it exudes much les,s resin 

 f.^ %°K- 'iio"/'A,.n No 7 P. 752.) Douglas found It on the higher 

 than ^'bies alba. (App. i>o. i. \>. I'J—) p^.°^ Or,. ATr..,r.t5ims nnH his 

 banks of the Columbia and in the valleys of the Rocky Mounta n , and his 

 snecimens have much longer leaves than are produced by the trees m Britain. 



