PINES 139 



Needles 100 200 mm. or so long, and 

 cones over 50 100 mm. long. 



Jt Sombre tree with deep green foliage 

 and dark coarse bark. Needles 100 

 150 mm. long, and cones 50 70 mm. 

 long, shining yellowish or pallid 

 brown. 



Pinus Laricio, Poir. var. austriaca. Black Pine. Not 

 always easily distinguished from the Scots Pine unless 

 the bark and cones are well developed; but the rigid 

 needles are coarser, longer, and of a duller darker hue. 

 Crown often ovoid-pyramidal. 



Jfjf Cones shining, at least 100 mm. long; 

 needles 120 200 mm. long, and 

 bright green. 



-7- Cones in clusters, oblique tawny. 



Pinus Pinaster, Soland. Cluster Pine (Fig. 57). 



-T- -r Cones not clustered, chestnut-brown. 



Pinus Pinea, L. Stone Pine (Figs. 56, 58). It is not 

 easy to distinguish P. Pinea and P. Pinaster when young 

 and pyramidal. Both have reddish-grey fissured bark. The 

 larger cones and longer leaves at once mark them off from 

 P. sylvestris and P. Laricio var. austriaca ; the polished 

 cones also from the former which has, moreover, more 

 scaly and orange-sienna bark: the colour of cones and 

 bark also from P. Laricio var. austriaca. 



Needles more thafl, 2 in each tuft. 



Cones erect or outstanding, ovoid, and 

 not over 150 200 mm. long, with 

 slight prickles; leaves 3 in the tuft, 

 bright green. 



Pinus Tceda, L. Loblolly Pine. An American tree 

 reaching 80 100 feet, with delicate grass-green foliage, 

 and reddish-brown bark with flat ridges and fissures. It 



