AUBOHETUM AND FKUTICKTL'M. 



I'AUT 111. 



white, having at the base a Ian- \ 

 ceolate, long-pointed, persistent, \ 

 indurated scale. Catkins termi- 

 nal, sessile; bracteated at the 

 base, \\ith numerous lanceolate 

 euspiilate scales; male catkins 

 numerous, simple, cylindrical, 

 I: 1 , in. long, dense. Stamens mon- 

 adelphous. Anthers linear, 2- 

 celled, opening below longitudi- 

 nally. Crest roundish, convex, 

 repand. Pollen granular, sulphur- 

 coloured ; female catkins ovate, 

 ternate, furnished at the base 

 with numerous lanceolate, mem- 

 branaceous, loose scales; ureen, 

 erect, finally brownish, spread- 

 ing. Scales short, roundish, 

 thick, marginate, imbricated backwards; keeled and convex above, Cone 

 generally ternate, ovate-oblong; 5 in. long, sessile, 2 in. in diameter at 

 the base, decl'mate-pendulous, ash-coloured, somewhat attenuated towards 

 the apex, decurved ; scales indurated, woodv, dilated at the apex, tra- 

 pc/oidal, depressedly 4-angled; ash-coloured, elevated in the centre from 

 a yellow conical tubercle terminated by a small spine. Seeds obovate ; 

 testa convex and crustaceons on both sides ; wing slender, membrana- 

 ceous, hook-shaped, oblong, acute, quite entire." (Lamb. P///..ed. 2., i. p. 14.) 

 The chief circumstance in which P. (L.)Pallaswwfl differs from P. Larfciojudging 

 from the trees at White Knights, is in the length of the cones: the leaves are 

 alr,o larger than those of P. Laricio ; and, on the A hole, the difference may be 

 compared to that which exists between 7'ilia europaAi and T. e grandifolia, or 

 the pin de Hageneau and the pin de Geneve. At the same time, we think it 

 right to observe that there is a tree of 1\ Laricio in the botanic garden at 

 \\ liite Knights, which produces both straight and crooked cones, which, though 

 longer than those generally borne by 1\ Laricio, are shorter than those of 

 /'. ( L. ) PallasiV/wrt. The rate of growth appears to be the same as in P. Laricio. 

 The finest trees in Kngland of P. (L.) Pal!as/V//m are, no doubt, those at 

 LoUon. \\hich, Mr. Lambert informs us, are between <><>ft. and 70 ft. high. 

 There are a number of trees at White Knights, which arc 1 from .">uft. to (iO ft. 

 hi:_:l), \\ith trunk-, from I 1 in. to Is in. in diameter; but thev are drawn up by 

 other trees. They are in some places intermixed \\ilh trees of /'. /'master, 

 and the tnmks are destitute of branches to the height of ^0 ft. or oO It., so 

 that the only \\ ay of recognising them from below is bv observing the 

 tortuous direction of their branches. There are trees at Dropmore, ^o ft. 

 high. Mr. Lambert remarks, in a letter to us, dated .Inlv, 1S.'>7, that, though 

 hi.^ trees proiluce j)U-nty ot'c'oiie-, annually, the seed.*> have never yet ripened. 

 (it:<igrnj)hi/ t ///.v/cr//, AT. /'. Pallas;V/;/a i.> confined to the central regions 

 of the Crimea, forming considerable iorests on the western declivity of the 

 chain of lofty mountains \\hich extend aloniz the coast of the Black Sea. It 

 was fir>t introduced into Kuglaud by Messrs. Lee and Kennedy of the Ham- 

 iner-niitli Nur.ser\, \\lio raised a nnmlier ot plants from .seeds sent to them 

 b\ Professor Pallas, from the Crimea, about 1 ~> f" I, and it \\ ;is sold b\ them as /*. 

 tatarica. < )f these plant-, some were planted at 1 >o\ Ion, alx.ut I 7!K>, of which 

 a fe\\ survive, and form trees be' \\ ec-n tin It . and '< " ft . hi'jh, alihonuh the soil on 

 Vvhiehthcv L'i'"\\ is scarceU :> in. thick, on a bed of solid chalk. About the same 

 time, from (j() to 70 plants were jilanted at \\hite Knights, b\ the Duke of 

 MariboroiiL'h, iti 'jood loamv soil, ^o or .'> of \\hich still exist, and are from 



>d of indigenous and other 

 'some shapes ; and, indeed, 



