STONE PINE 



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A few other 3-needled Pines — all from North America — 

 occur in cultivation, some with immense cones and long 

 leaves, each over 300 mm. in length, e.g. P. Coulteri. 



§§ Cones not prickle/, rather thin scaled, 

 and hardly or not at all pointed. 

 Needles 5 in the tuft, 100 — 200»i?rt. long. 



Fig. 58. Pinus Pinea, L. 1, ripe closed cone ; 2, cone-scale viewed 

 from above ; 3, mature seed ; 4, cone-scale viewed from below ; 5, de- 

 tached wing of seed. (All reduced, after vou Tubeuf.) 



