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THE SCOTCH FIR, or PINE. 

 PINUS SYLVESTRIS. PI. 22. 



Fruftif cation. Barren flowers in bunches, 

 each with many chives united at the 

 tips. Fertile flowers on the fame tree 

 in a cone, com pofed of fcales, with 

 two flowers in each ; the feed-bud fuc- 

 ceeded by a nut having a winged 

 membrane. 



Specific character. Leaves growing in pairs 

 out of one (heath ; in their firft growth 

 folitary and fmooth. 



THE pine tribe form a large and im- 

 portant family in trees, diftinguifhed by 

 their ftifF, narrow, pointed leaves, gene- 

 rally evergreen, and of a dark hue, and 

 their fcaly cones. Some of them affect 

 mountainous fituations ; others, bogs and 



fwamps ; 



