

LXXVII. CONIFERS: PI'NUS. 



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Flowers in May, and the cones 

 are matured in November of the 

 second year. 



1801. P. mops. 1802. 



The violet colour of the shoots is peculiar to this species and to P. mitis, 

 among the 2- and 3-leaved pines, but it occurs in the 4-leaved pines, in P. 

 Sabiniana and P. Coulteri. The buds are resinous; and this matter very 

 readily exudes, and incrusts the surface of the sections wherever a branch is 

 cut off At Dropmore, in warm weather during sunshine, the fragrance of 

 the air in the neighbourhood of this tree is delight- 

 fully balsamic. 



t 13. P. PU'NGENS Michx. The prickly-coned, 

 or Table Mountain, Pine. 



Identification. Michx. Arb., 1. p. 61. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 



2. p. 643. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1. 17. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 17. ; Michx. N. Amer. 



Syl., 3. t. 140. ; our fig. 1804. to our usual scale, and figs. 



1803. and 1805. natural size, all from Dropmore specimens. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves short, and thickly set. 

 Cones top-shaped, very large, yellow. Scales 



with hard incurved prickles, thick, and 



broad at the base. (Michx.) Bud (fig. 



1803.) from |in. to |in. long, and in. 



broad ; cylindrical, blunt at the point ; 



brownish, and covered with white resin ; 



generally without small buds. Leaves 



(fig. 1805.) 2^ in. long, including the 



sheath, which has 4 or 5 rings ; the 



leaves are much broader, and rather 



shorter and lighter, than those of P. 

 1803. ( S pumilio, and tipped with a sharp 



point. Cone 3| in. long, and about 

 2 in. broad. Scale woody, and furnished with a 

 strong awl-shaped hook, exceeding i in. in length. 

 Seeds nearly as large as those of P. sylvestris, 

 rough and black. Cotyledons from 6 to 8. 



