CONIFERS. 91 



FINDS PERSICA. I 

 A Tiardy species from the south of Persia. 



PINUS PINASTER. Solander. 

 (Cluster Pine.) 



SYN. Pinus Massoniana. Lambert.' 

 Pinus maritima. De Candolle. 

 Pinus nepalensis. Royle. 

 Pinus Hamiltoniana. Tenore. 



There are many varieties of this well-known tree in 

 cultivation some with useful, others with merely 

 curious peculiarities. The species is native over a 

 wide range on the mountains and coasts of continental 

 Europe, and in parts of India, China, and Japan. 

 Height about sixty feet, when growing in good dry 

 sandy soils, with a porous subsoil ; but much dwarfer 

 in wet or peaty soils. It is a very picturesque 

 tree, and invaluable for planting in sandy places near 

 the sea. 



P. P. var. Escarena. Risso. 



(Earl of Aberdeen's Pinaster.) 



Handsome and distinct, with paler foliage than 

 the species. 



P. P. var. Lemoniana. Bentham. 

 (Sir Charles Lemon's Pinaster.) 



A curious variety, the description of which we 

 quote from the " Transactions of the Horticultural 

 Society:" "In this obscure species [variety] the 

 cone is single (in the species they are in whorls), and 



