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ARBORETUM ET FUUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



t. 29. ; P. maritima N. Du 11am. 5. p 240. ; P. syrtica Thore Prom, sur les CAles de Gascognc, 

 p 161 P. Massoui^wa Lamb. 2 ed. 118. ; Pin de Bordeaux, Pin dcs Landes ; Pinastro, Ital. 

 Engravings. Du Ham. Arb., No. 4. t. 26. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 9. ; N. Du Ham , 5. t. 72. and 

 72. bis f. 1. ; the plates of this tree in Arb. Brit., 1st. edit. vol. viii. ; our fig. 1786., to our usual 

 scale ;figs. 1781. and 1782., of the natural size, from Dropmore and Pain's Hill specimens. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in pairs, rigid, very long. Cones conical, placed in 

 whorls of 3, 4, or even as many as 8, together ; rather solitary, much shorter 

 than the leaves ; the 

 backs of the scales 

 forming each a rhom- 

 boidal pyramid, with 

 two lateral angles, 

 from which proceed 

 ribs, terminating at 

 the summit of the 

 pyramid in a smaller 

 pyramid, which has 

 a hard point, more 

 or less sharp, and of 

 a grey colour. Crest 

 of the anthers round- 

 ed. Bud (fig 1781.) 



1781. P. Pin&ster. 



from | in. to f in. 

 long; and from fin. 

 to A in. broad ; 

 straight-sided, cylin- 

 drical, with the scales 

 turned back ; white 

 and woolly, but never 

 resinous ; surround- 

 ing buds few and 

 small. Leaves (see 

 fig. 1782.) from 6 or 

 8 inches to 1 ft. in 

 length, slightly ser- 

 rated on the mar- 

 gins ; sheaths from 

 ^in. to fin. in length; 

 imbricated, scarcely rigid ; pale green or whitish at first, and becoming 

 at last black. Cones from 4 in. to 6 in. in length, and from If in. 

 to 2| in. wide at the broadest part; light brown, and shining; scales 

 from 1 in. to l^in. in length, and from \ in. to fin. in breadth at the widest 

 part ; terminating in a regular pyramid ; rhomboidal at the base. The sum- 

 mit consisting of a smaller rhomboidal pyramid, of an ash-grey colour, very 



1782. P. Pinaster. 



