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from brandies, except near the summit, with remarkably 

 smooth, reddish-colored bark. The leaves on the young 

 plants are longer, waved and twisted, light green, slightly 

 glaucous, and minutely serrulated ; the young terminal 

 buds are of a peculiar reddish color, and generally more 

 or less covered with whitish resin." "The forests of 

 Ilaguenan," M. Xebel informs us, " extended over up- 

 wards of 30,000 acres, but the greater part of the pine 

 trees were cut down during the war." 



Var. intermedia, London. Is from Russia, with 

 " slender young shoots depressed towards the stem, and 

 leaves shorter and less glaucous than those of the species." 



Tar, Altaica, Ledebour. A native of the Altaian 

 Mountains, growing about fifty feet high, and introduced 

 into England in 1836, by Dr. Ledebour. A dense, pyrami- 

 dal tree, with shorter and more rigid leaves than the species. 



Var. tortllOSa, Don. Who describes it "as having 

 the leaves shorter than P. s. vulgaris, and somewhat curled 

 or twisted. He saw only 3 or 4 trees of it, and thinks it 

 nearly approaches the P. Banksiana of Lambert." 



Var, monopliylla. Hodgins. This variety has two 

 leaves in a sheath, but united together throughout their 



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length, thus imparting to the tree a very curious appear- 

 ance. " When the points are taken between the finger 

 and thumb, and the apparently single leaf twisted, it gen- 

 erally separates into two, and sometimes into three leaves." 

 Var, na na. Sort. " A very dwarf variety, not grow- 

 ing more than one or two feet high, but spreading widely 

 in a horizontal direction, and having very stunted branch- 

 es and leaves."- (Gordon.) 



Var, varicgata, Hort. "This only differs from the or- 

 dinary form in the mixture of its pale straw-colored, with 

 the usual glaucous or bluish-green leaves, being produced 

 on both old and young wood."- (Gordon.) 



Var, latifolia, Gordon. With several synonyms, is 



