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P. M. var. obliqua. 

 (Marsh Mugho Pine.) 



More symmetrical in growth than the species, and a 

 more handsome tree. 



PINUS MURICATA. Don. 



(Bishop Pine.) 

 STN. Pinus Edgariana. Gardens. 



Indigenous to California, where it is known as the 

 Bishop Pine. Its habitat is on the mountains, at an 

 elevation of above 3,000 feet. In appearance it is 

 stunted, and does not usually grow higher than forty 

 feet. The cones are remarkable for the lateral deve- 

 lopment of their scales. Colour of the foliage 

 resembling insignis, but the leaves are longer. A very 

 handsome and hardy species. 



PINUS OOCARPA. Schiede. 

 (Egg-shape-coned Pine.) 



Very closely resembling Pinus Montezumce. A native 

 of the warmer localities on the western declivities of 

 the mountains of Mexico, at elevations from 4000 to 

 5000 feet on the south coast. Height forty to fifty 

 feet. Leaves slender, about a foot long. Although 

 considered too tender for this climate, it is hardy in 

 many favourable localities, and will probably prove 

 more so than is supposed. 



