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situation ; for although becoming a creditable tree in 

 the poorest and most exposed situations, it grows taller 

 and more rapidly in favourable localities. Its habit 

 is compact ; general outline conical, with palish, some- 

 what glaucous green foliage. We observed a fine 

 specimen of this fir, sixty feet high, in the grounds of 

 G-. S. Foljambe, Esq., Osberton, Notts. 



P. c. var. pumilo. Endlicher. 

 SYN. Pinus Cembra pygmcea, London. 



(Dwarf Siberian Stone Pine.) 



Indigenous to the rocky slopes of the mountains of 

 Siberia, where it occurs as a dwarf bush, five or six 

 feet high, clothing the most exposed situations. 



PINUS CEMBROIDES. Zuccarini. 



(Cembran-like Stone Pine.) 



Resembles Pinus Llaveana in foliage, but has smaller 

 leaves. A very handsome tree, indigenous to the 

 mountains of California, at an altitude of 10,000 feet, 

 where it occurs as a dwarf tree twenty to thirty feet 

 high. Branches slender, in regular whorls; leaves 

 numerous, of a light green. 



PINUS DEVONIANA. Lindley. 



(Duke of Devonshire's Pine.) 



A tree from sixty to eighty feet high, indigenous to 

 Mount Ocotillo in Mexico, with leaves a foot long. 

 This species is remarkable for the size of its young 

 shoots, which are often an inch in diameter. A very 

 noble tree. Not very hardy. 



