80 THE BOOK OF EVERGREENS. 



" As an ornamental tree, we think it one of the most in- 

 teresting of the genus, from the graceful manner in which 

 it throws about its long, flexible, twisted branches, which 

 are generally covered throughout their whole length with 

 twisted, glaucous-green leaves, with here and there a 

 whorl of curiously hooked, horn-like cones. It is one of 

 the hardiest of the Abietinese, enduring in the Floetbeck 

 Nurseries 12 of Reaumur (5 Fahr.,) and therefore it 

 may be safely planted in pinetums in the extreme north, 

 not only of Britain, but of Europe." 



3, P. Brutia 9 Tenore. CALABRIAN CLUSTER PINE. 

 Syn. P. conglomerate G-rcefer ; quoted by Lambert. 

 Leaves in twos rarely in threes, very long, slender, glabrous, 

 wavy, spreading, about 9 inches long ; light green, cana- 

 liculate above, convex beneath, serrulate on the margins, 

 terminated by a small callous mucro ; sheaths about $ i"ch 

 long, persistent, of an ash-brown color, membranaceous, 

 entire round the tops ; guarded at bottom with a linear- 

 lanceolate, revolute, bright brown, thread-like, ciliated 

 scale (metamorphosed leaf.) Cones, sessile, generally in 

 clusters, ovate, smooth, brownish, 2 inches to 3 inches 

 long; cones truncate at the apex, flattish, trapezoidal, um- 

 bilicate, smooth, obsoletely four-angled ; umbilicus, dilat- 

 ed, depressed, somewhat hollow, ash-colored. (D. Don.) 



A large tree from the Calabrian Mountains, where, ac- 

 cording to Prof. Tenore, it attains the height of 70 feet. 

 It is remarkably spreading in its character, and the bright 

 green foliage produces a beautiful effect. After testing its 

 hardiness for several years, it may now be recommended 

 as reliable and quite valuable in a collection of ornamental 

 trees. Many authorities have at different periods been at 

 a loss to determine the true position of this species, and 

 have through an ignorance of its distinctive characters 

 ranked it as a variety of P. pinaster, etc. ; and Spregel 

 referred it to that species, without considering it suffi- 

 ciently marked to even form a variety. It is, however, very 

 distinct in many points. It so closely resembles the P. 



