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CONI'FERJE. Pl'NUS. 



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2059 



that species ; nevertheless we give it as such, till it shall be farther 

 known. In the Horticultural Society's Garden, it was, in August, 

 1837, 4ft. 6 in. high, and produced two cones, which, however, did 

 not arrive at maturity. The scales were not hooked, and they did 

 not appear to differ from those of P. (s.) pumilio. Mr. Booth states 

 that he raised P. (s.) p. Ffscheri in 1825-6, from seeds received from 

 M. Kin of Philadelphia ; from which it might be presumed that 

 it was something quite distinct from any European species or variety. 

 Plants, in the Floetbeck Nurseries, are 10*. 6d. each. 

 P. (s.)p. 4 Mughus; P. s. Mugho Matt. Camer ; P. montana Baum. 

 Cat. ; P. Mugho Jacq., Poir, and N. Du Ham., v. p. 233. t. 68. ; P. 

 echinata Hort. ; P. uncinata Dec., Lod. Cat., 

 ed. 1836 ; and our Jigs. 2059. and 2060. ; the 

 latter showing the cone, seed, scale, and 

 sheath of leaves, of the natural size. The 

 Mugho wild Pine; Pin Mugho, Torchepin, 

 Pin suffis, Pin crin, Pin du Brianonnais, 

 Pin de Montagne, Fr. ; Bergfichte, Ger. 

 This variety is included by Aiton and others 

 in the preceding one ; but, having seen 

 both sorts bearing cones, we are satisfied 

 that they are distinct, though they bear so 

 close a resemblance to each other in fo- 

 liage and habit, that, when the cones are ab- 

 sent, they might be supposed to be identical. 

 It is remarked in the Nouveau Du Hamel, that 

 all the published figures of this variety are 

 bad, with the exception of the one given 

 in that work, from which ours is copied. On comparing^.?. 2058. 

 and 2060., it will be found that the cones of P. (s.) p. Mughus, inde- 

 pendently of the pe- 

 culiar protuberant 

 appearance of the 

 scales,are larger than 

 those of P. (s.) 

 pumilio. This and 

 other differences in 

 the cones are quite 

 sufficient, in a tech- 

 nical point of view 

 to constitute P. (s.) 

 p. Mughus and P.(s.) 

 pumilio distinct spe- 

 cies ; but, notwith- 

 standing this, they 

 bear such obvious 

 marks of belonging 

 to P. sylvestris in 

 their foliage, habit, 

 and locality, that we 

 cannot for a moment 

 hesitate about unit- 

 ing them to that spe- ' "TT ^^T 2060 

 cies. The only plants which we feel quite certain are the P 

 Mugho of the Nouveau Du Hamel are at Syon, at Dropmore, and 

 in the Horticultural Society's Garden, because the cones on the 

 plants' in all these places exactly resemble that in our fig. 2060., 

 which, as before stated, is copied from the Nouveau Du Hamel. 

 Fig. 2061. is a portrait of the tree, or rather bush, at Dropmore, 



