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 hark. Needles 1 00 — 

 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 

 blight green. 

 -7- Cones in clusters, obliqtie tawny. 



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



-=- -7- 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. 



CJ EJ Needles more than 2 in each tuft. 



§ Co7ies erect or outstanding, ovoid, and 

 not over 150—200 mm. long, xoith 

 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 



