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than thirty feet ; and at great elevation and in very 

 exposed places it becomes a dwarf spreading bush, 

 with very prostrate rooting branches, producing a 

 dense thicket. For covering bleak chalky hills it has 

 no rival, or, in fact, for any situation where a close, low, 

 evergreen growth is required, and where most other 

 trees or shrubs will not succeed. 



PINUS PUNGENS. Michaux. 

 (Table Mountain Pine.) 



Has the habit of sylvestris, but is more numerously 

 branched, and the foliage is paler. A native of the 

 mountains in North Carolina, and in Virginia. 



PINUS PSEUDO-STKOBUS. Lindley. 

 (Bastard Weymouth Pine.) 



Occurs about Anganguco in Mexico, at an elevation 

 of 8000 feet above the sea. Leaves eight or ten inches 

 long, slender, and glaucous, like those of the Weymouth 

 Pine. 



PINUS PYRENAICA. La Peyrouse. 

 (Pyrenean Pine.) 



SYN. Pinus pencillus. La Peyrouse. 

 Pinus hispanica. Cook. 

 Pinus halapensis major. Gardens. 

 Pinus monspeliensis. Vilmorin. 



A lofty, handsome, quick-growing tree, indigenous 

 to the Pyrenees, with very long, slender, erect leaves, 

 of a beautiful green, which are " arranged round the 

 branches like the hairs of a camel' s-hair pencil." 



