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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



ance, with a blunt point. Seeds extremely small. A low, scrubby, strag 

 gling tree. Hudson's Bay, and farther north than any other American 

 pine, where it grows among barren rocks. Height, in America, 5 ft. to 8 ft. ; 

 at Dropmore and White Knights, 15 ft. to 30 ft. Introduced in 1735. 

 Flowers yellowish ; May. Cones ripe in the November of the second year. 



The catkins of both sexes are expanded in May, before those of P. syl- 

 vestris ; but, as in that species, the cones do not attain their full size and 

 maturity till the November of the second year, and do not open to shed their 



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p. Banfesmna. 



seeds till the spring of the third year. The cones are commonly in pairs, of 

 a grey or ash colour (whence the American name of grey pine) ; they are 

 above 2 in. long, and have the peculiarity of always pointing in the same di- 

 rection as the branches. They are remarkable for curving to one side, which 

 gives them the appearance of small horns. Tiiey are extremely hard, and 

 often remain on the trees several years. Plants are raised from imported 

 seeds, when these can be procured; but the species maybe inarched, or 

 grafted in the herbaceous manner, on P. sylvestris. 



9 12. P. i^NOPS Ait. The Jersei/, or poor, Pine. 



Identificafion. Ait. Hort. Kew-, ed. 1., 3. p. 367., ed. 2., 5. p. 316. ; Michx. N. Amer. Syl.,3. p. 129.; 



Pursh Sept., 2. p. 641. 

 Si/nonymes. P. virginiiina T)n lioi IJnrbk. ed. Pott. 2. p. 47. ; Pin chetif, Fr. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 12. ; N. Du Ham., t. 69. f. 1. ; Michx. N. Amcr. Sjl. 3. t. 137. ; 



our fin. 1801. to our usual scale, and fi^s. ISOO. and 1802. of the natural size, all from Dropmore 



specimens. ' 



Spec. Char., S^c. Leaves in pairs. Cones drooping oblong-conical, longer 

 than the leaves. The scales av\l-shaped, with prominent prickles. Crest 

 of the anthers short, broad, jagged. Bud {fig. 1800.) from | in. to i in. long, 

 and A in. broad ; cylindrical, blunt at the point, resinous, brown, and 

 surrounded by three small buds. Cone {fig. 1802.) from 2^ in. to 

 3A in. long, and from 1 in. to l|in. broad. Some of those at Drop- 

 more are of the last dimensions. Scales of a hard woody texture, 

 of a yellowish brown colour, with a sharp woody prickle projecting 

 from each, which is generally straight. Leaves from If in. to 2j in. 

 long. Sheaths with 3 or 4 rings. Seeds small, cotyledons 6 to 8. 

 Young shoots covered with a, fine purplish glaucous bloom. A 

 tortuous-branched low tree, having, at a distance, the general appear- 

 ance of P. Banks/oHrt ; but differing from that species in having many 

 of the more slender branches pendulous, and the wood of the shoots 

 of the current year conspicuously glaucous and tinged with violet. 

 New Jersey to Carolina, on dry barren soils. Height, in America, 30 ft. to 

 40 ft.; at Dropmore and Pain's Hill, 40 ft. to 50 ft. Introduced in 1739. 



