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branches, twisted in every 

 direction, and of different 

 lengths. The plants in the 

 Horticultural Society's Gar- 

 den, and in most other places, 



1817. P. i 



were killed by the winter of 

 1837-8 ; but one plant at 

 Elvaston Castle stood that 

 winter without protection. 

 This has also been the case 

 with some plants in the neigh- 

 bourhood of London. 



1818. P. insignia. 



1 27. P. CALIFORNIA V NA Lois. The Californian Pine. 



Identification. Loiseleur Deslongchamps, in the N. Du Ham., 5. p. 243. 



Synonymes. P. montereyensis Godefroy ; P. adunca Bosc, as quoted in Bon Jard. ; Pin de Mon- 

 terey, Bon Jard. ed. 1837. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves in twos and threes. Cones much longer than the 

 leaves. (Low.) This tree grows in the neighbourhood of Monte-Rey, in 

 California. Its cone is in the form of that of P. Pinaster, but one third 

 larger in all its parts. Under each of the scales are found two seeds of the 

 size of those of P. Cembra, and of which the kernel is good to eat. A 

 plant of this pine in the Horticultural Society's Garden, named there P. 

 montheragensis, which was received from M. Godefroy about 1829, formed 

 a stunted bush, 3 ft. high, and 4 or 5 feet broad, but it died in the winter 

 of 1837-8. A very doubtful species. 



1 28. P. MURICA'TA D. Don. The smaller prickly-co<?rf Pine. 



Identification. Lin. Trans., 17. p. 441. ; Lamb. Pin., 3. t. 84. 



Synonyme. Obispo, Span. 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., 3. t. 84. ; and our fig. 1849. 



Spec. Char., fyc. ? Leaves in threes. Cones ovate, with unequal sides, crowd- 

 ed ; scales wedge-shaped, flattened at the apex, mucronate ; those at the 



