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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM 



1805. P. pungens. 



A tree, with the habit of P. sylvestris, but with a much more branchy 

 head. North Carolina, on high mountains. Height 40 ft. to 50 ft. Intro- 

 duced in 1804. Flowers in May, and the cones are ripened in November 

 of the second year. 



Readily distinguished from P. sylvestris by the young leaves not being 

 glaucous, and by the leaves generally being more straight and rigid, slightly 

 serrated at the margins, and with shorter sheaths. The leaves are also 

 of a paler green, both when young and full grown ; so that the tree, when 

 of large size, has nothing of the gloomy appearance attributed to the Scotch 

 pine. The cones are of a light yellowish brown colour, without footstalks ; 

 and they are generally in whorls of 3 or 4- together, pointing horizontally, and 

 remaining on the tree for many years. At Dropmore, there are cones adher- 

 ing to the trunk and larger branches of more than 20 years' growth, giving the 

 tree a very singular appearance ; and rendering its trunk easily distinguishable, 

 even at a distance, from those of all others of the pine tribe. 



i. 14. P. RESINO V SA Ait. The resinous, or red, Pine. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p 367., ed. 2., 5. p. 316. ; Pursh Fl. Arcer. Sept. 2. p. 642. 

 Synonymes. P. rubra Michx. N. Amer Syl. 3. p. 112. ; Norway Pine, in Canada ; Yellow Pine, in 



Nova Scotia ; le Pin rouge da Canada, Fr. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 13. ; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. t. 134.; our fig. 1808. to our 



usual scale, with a male catkin (m) of the natural size, and figs. 1806. and 1807. of the natural 



size, all from Dropmore and White Knights specimens. 



Sj)cc. Char., fyc. Bark red. Leaves in pairs, 4 or 5 inches long. Cones of 

 a reddish brown, ovate-conical, rounded at the base, and half the length of 

 the leaves; scales dilated in the middle, and unarmed. (Michx.} "Buds 



