MOUNTAIN PINE, ETC. 183 



Pinus montana, Mill. Mountain Pine. Low straggling, 

 or even prostrate tree, with deep-green foliage. 



Male flowers numerous, in dense cones, cylindroid, 

 stalked, up to 15 mm. long, bright yellow or orange. 

 Stamens with large rounded toothed anther-tips. 



Female flowers about as large as the male, usually in 

 pseudo-whorls, erect, pruinose violet. Carpellary scales 

 longer than the ovular scales and with prolonged beaks. 



Cone sessile or sub-sessile, erect outstanding, or some- 

 what deflected, mostly in pseudo-whorls or pairs, 2 

 5 '5 cm. long, varying in form and colour, but bright. 

 Umbo pale ash-grey or brown surrounded by a dark 

 ring. 



n n No black ring round the umbo ; cones 

 1 2 {rarely 3) together^ long -conoid, 

 acute, about 35 60 (25 70) mm. long, 

 grey-brown to olive; apophysis sub-rhom- 

 boid, flattened or not, upper border ovate, 

 matt, umbo; blunt; red when young. 

 The $ cone rosy-yellow, 6 8 mm. 

 Needles curved or twisted, about 45 55 

 (30 80) mm. long, with callous tip; 

 bluish glaucous to dull dark green. Tall 

 tree %oith orange or sienna bark. 



Pimis sylvestris, L. Scots Pine (Fig. 49). Erect 

 tree, with sienna or orange-coloured bark, and short 

 glaucous or bluish foliage, but variable. 



Male flowers 6 8 mm. long, ovoid, shortly stalked, 

 aggregated at the base of young shoots, leaving the axis 

 bare after falling. Stamens yellow, each with a small 

 roundish anther-comb often reduced to a mere rudiment. 



Female flower small, 5 6 mm. long, singly or in pairs, 

 rarely several in a pseudo-whorl at the tip of the young- 

 shoot, stalked, deflexed when young, then divaricate, 

 oblong, reddish. 



