CHAP. CXUI. 



coni'feu^. PI^NUS. 



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Description. " A middle-sized tree, with many large spreading 

 branches. Bark greyish brown, smooth, not cracked, but covered 

 with depressed tubercles. Leaves in twos, rarely in threes, very 

 long, slender, glabrous, wavy, spreading, about 9 in. long ; light 

 green, canaliculate above, convex beneath, serrulate on the margin, 

 terminated by a small conical callous mucro ; sheaths about i in. 

 long, persistent, of an ash-brown colour, membranaceous, entire 

 round the tops ; guarded at bottom with a linear-lanceolate, revo- 

 lute, bright brown, thread-like, ciliated scale (metamorphosed leaf). 

 Cones sessile, generally in clusters, ovate, smooth, brownish, 2 in. 

 to 3 in. long. Cones truncate at the apex, flattish, trapezoidal, um- *^^^ 

 bilicate, smooth, obsoletely 4-angled ; umbilicus dilated, depressed, somewhat 

 hollow, ash-coloured. {D.Don.) This species is nearly related to P. h. mari- 

 tima ; but it is readily distinguished both from it and P. halepensis by its very 

 long wavy leaves, and by its shorter, sessile, clustered 

 cones, with the scales depressed and slightly con- 

 cave at their apex. The leaves resemble those of P. 



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Laricio ; but they are more slender, and rather longer, and both species differ 

 essentially in their cones. Sprengel has referred it to P. Pinaster, not even 

 allowing it the rank of a variety ; but no two species can be more distinct. 

 The leaves in P. Pinaster are twice as stout, straight, and rigid, and disposed 

 in interrupted verticels ; and the cones are double the size, with the scales 

 elevated and angular. The tree of P. brutia is said to attain a considerable 

 size, and to yield timber of excellent quality." {Lamb. Pin., iii. t. 82.) Mr. 

 Lambert has raised young plants at Boyton, which he has distributed to dif- 

 ferent public and private establishments, including the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden. 



