322 PINUS, OR 



beautiful Jeep green colour ; outer ones curved, thickly set on 

 the branches near the extremities, and slightly angular when full 

 grown. Sheaths nearly one inch long, persistent, rather rough, 

 and scaly. Branches very stout, but not numerous, and rather 

 irregularly placed round the stem, but sometimes in whorls. 

 Cones seven inches long, and one inch and three-quarters broad 

 at the base, elongated, pointed, straight, and with a very short 

 foot-stalk ; horizontal, or slightly drooping, in whorls round the 

 branches, and with a hard shining surface, destitute of resinous 

 matter. Scales rhomboid at the apex, forming a small pyramid, 

 with a straight blunt point, and of a dull grayish-brown colour, 

 very hard, and compact. Seeds middle-sized, with rather short 

 but broadish wings. 



A beautiful tree, from 60 to 80 feet high, with few but very 

 robust branches, loaded with fine long dark green leaves. 



It is found on the highest point of the " Cumbra" and " Car- 

 men," and on the road from San Pedro to San Pablo, near Real 

 del Monte, in Mexico. 



It is tolerably hardy. 



No. 90. Pinus Strobus, Linnceus, the Weymouth Pine. 



Syn. Pinus Canadensis quinquefolia, Duhamel. 



Leaves in fives, very slender, three or four inches long, three- 

 sided, soft, and of a light glaucous or bluish-green colour, marked 

 when young with silvery channels on one side. Sheaths very 

 short, almost wanting, and soon falling off. Branches short, in 

 whorls, thinly clothed with foliage, and having a very smooth 

 shining bark. Cones long, narrow, slightly curved, cylindrical, 

 tapering to rather a sharp point, bright-green when young, pen- 

 dulous, and from five to six inches long, and one inch and a 

 half broad, with a foot-stalk three-quarters of an inch long. 

 Scales thin, smooth, oblong, with the upper part thickened, 

 six-eighths of an inch broad, but diminishing in size, and more 

 pointed towards the apex, lying rather loosely over each other, 



