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but not so broad, and a tree of much slower growth ; but ac- 

 cording to Pallas a lofty tree destitute of branches a con- 

 siderable way up the trunk, and which sometimes attains a 

 height of 100 feet, but is never found beyond the River Lena 

 in Eastern Siberia. 



Seeds large, and eatable in Siberia. 



PlNUS Cembra PYGM.EA, Fischer, the Dwarf Cembra Pine. 

 S # yn. Pinus Cembra pumila, Endlicher. 

 Pyg mpea > Fischer. 

 Cembra nana, Hort. 

 ,, humistrata, Madden. 



A very dwarf variety, seldom growing more than two or 

 three feet high, with a scrubby appearance, and at times as- 

 suming a creeping form on the ground, with the leaves very 

 much shorter and more crowded. Cones extremely small, 

 nearly round, and bright purple when full grown. Scales very 

 small, thin, rather recurved and pointed. Seeds wingless, and 

 very small of their kind. It is found in Eastern Siberia, cover- 

 ing rocks where no other vegetation grows, and in valleys, 

 where it grows much stronger, but never attains the size of a 

 small tree. It grows on the eastern slope of the Ural Moun- 

 tains towards the Lena, where it is called the elastic Stone 

 Pine, or Spreading Cedar of Eastern Siberia, and has several 

 stems, sometimes 12 feet long and three inches in diameter ; 

 erect in summer, but completely prostrated by the snow in 

 winter. The cones are but half the size of those of the Swiss 

 kind, but the nuts are equally good flavoured. 



Pinus Cembra Variegata, Hort, the Variegated Cembra Pine. 



This is a very ornamental variety, with an equal portion of 

 its leaves of a pale straw colour. 



No. 64. Pinus cornea, Roezl, the Horn-shaped Coned Pine. 



Leaves in fives, rather ]ong, and slender. Cones somewhat 

 like those of Pinus Pseudo-Strobus, long, recurved, tapering 



