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inches long, widest at the base, and tapering to a point ; mostly 

 in twos, of a gray ash colour, smooth, always pointing in the 

 same direction as the branches, and remaining on the tree for 

 years. Scales rounded, one third of an inch wide, irregularly 

 four-sided, and terminating in a protuberance, with a blunt 

 point in the centre. Seeds extremely small, with little wings 

 half an inch long. 



A low, scrubby, straggling bush, or small tree, from five to 

 ten feet high, but in good soil and a favourable situation from 

 fifteen to twenty feet high. 



It is found in tbe most northern parts of America ; in the 

 district of Maine, Nova Scotia, and among the rocks at Labra- 

 dor ; at Halifax and Hudson's Bay it disappears, except in a 

 few straggling; bushes amongst the rocks. Dr. Richardson de- 

 scribes it as a handsome tree in favourable situations, and 

 Douglas found it on the higher banks of the Columbia, and in 

 the valley of the Rocky Mountains, of considerable size. 



No. 3. Pinus Bolanderi, Parlatore. Bolander's Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus muricata, Var. Bolander. 



Leaves in twos, thickly set on the branches, short, rigid, 

 erectly-spreading, curved, semiterete, channelled above and 

 deep green, with the margins slightly scabrous, and the points 

 somewhat spiny, and from one inch and a quarter to one and 

 a half long, and a little more than half a line broad. Branches 

 in whorls. Cones from two to four in a whorl on the branches ; 

 the younger ones are somewhat bent downwards and sub- 

 globose, and the adult ones nearly sessile, pendulous, pressed 

 close together round the branches, and oblong-cylindrical, 

 somewhat obtuse, straight or slightly curved, and slightly un- 

 even at the base, and two inches long and one inch broad. 

 Scales quadrangularly-rhomboid, pyramidally elevated, sharply 

 keeled transversely, convex above, with a prominent acute 

 mucro, which is long and reflexed. Seeds small and nearly 

 black. 



A small tree from ten to fifteen feet high, found by Bolander 



