78 CONIFERS. 



and would probably prove so in many other places if 

 the prevailing opinion did not declare it too tender, 

 and prevent it from being more extensively planted. 

 It is found in America as far north as 40 lat., although 

 not generally indigenous there. About Florida and 

 Virginia it occurs plentifully on dry barren soils near 

 the sea, where it grows seventy feet high, with a beauti- 

 fully straight trunk. Its foliage is very slender, of a 

 rich green, collected in tufts at the extremities of the 

 branches. 



PIN US AYACAHUITE. C. EJirenlerg. 



(Ayacahuite Pine.) 



Inhabits the mountains of Mexico, in the provinces 

 of Chiapa and Oxaca, where it grows one hundred 

 feet high. The leaves are about four inches long, and, 

 when young, of a very pale or whitish colour. Cones 

 often a foot long. 



PINUS BANKSIANA. Lambert. 

 (Banks' or Scrub Pine.) 



SYN. Pinus kudsonica. Lamarck. 

 Pinus rupestris. Michaux. 

 Pinus contorta. Douglas. 



More interesting from its associations than from its 

 appearance. Its branches are long and thin, and but 

 few in number, giving the tree a spare appearance. It 

 occurs abundantly about the coast of North America 

 in high latitudes. Thrives well in deep sandy soils, 

 and grows forty to fifty feet high. The young shoots 

 emit a very pleasant odour. 



