P1NUS JINASTER. 387 



was from this mode of obtaining lamp-black that that 

 substance derived its name. 



The Pinaster also produces tar, pitch, and oil of turpen- 

 tine, but not of a fine quality. 



A singular variety of Pinaster was noticed by Sir Charles 

 Lemon at Carclcw in Cornwall, which has been named 

 Pinus Lemoniana. The peculiarity of this tree is, that it 

 bears at the extremity of every branch a solitary cone 



instead of a new shoot, the side shoots rising from beneath 

 the base of the cone. Hence the tree has a singular zigzag 

 appearance in its young stage, and, when old, ir, more 

 bushy than the common Pinaster. 



