CHAP. CXI1I. 



CONl'FER^E. P1 X NUS. 



2213 



2098 



rence, a ship of 50 or 60 guns, built by the French at Quebec, was made of 

 it. The timber of this pine is sent to England, from the district of Maine and 

 the shores of Lake Champlain. As an ornamental tree, this species is well 

 deserving of cultivation. The price of plants, at New York, is 50 cents each. 



App. i. Doubtful Species, apparently belonging to Laricio. 



P. canadensis bijt>lia t .fbliis brevioribus et tenuidribus, Du Ham. 



Arb., ii. p. 126. ; P. resinbsa A T . Du Ham., v. p. 237. t. 77. f. 2. : 



and our Jig. 2098. to our usual scale, and Jig. 2099. of the natural 



size, both from the Nouveau Du Ilamel. Leaves in pairs, or 



three in a sheath, slender. Cones conical, erect, in twos, threes, 



or fours, and sometimes in clusters ; not half the length of 



the leaves ; having their scales convex on the back, scarcely 

 angular, depressed and umbilicate at the summit (Lois. Des- 

 longchamps.) There was, in 1812, a tree of this species grow- 

 ing in the garden of the Veterinary School at Alfort, about two 

 leagues from Paris, which Loiseleur Deslongchamps states 

 that he had known for more than 30 years, and which'was not 

 then more than 12 ft. high. The trunk is divided near the base 

 into three large limbs, which rise obliquely, and are subdivided 

 into numerous small branches, so as to form a large round bush. 

 The trunk and limbs are covered with a rough cracked bark of a 

 reddish brown ; while the younger branches have a greyish bark, 

 tolerably smooth. The leaves are in pairs or threes ; they are slender, from 3 in. to 6 in. long, and 

 are disposed in tufts at the extremity of the branches, or near the clusters of cones ; leaving at least 

 half or two thirds of each branch quite bare. The tree at Alfort does not appear to have borne any 

 male catkins ; but the female 

 ones are numerous: they are oval, 

 reddish, and disposed in groups 

 or clusters, of from 2 or 3 to 6 or 

 10, or even more, together. The 

 female catkins stand straight out 

 when in flower, and retain the 

 same direction when in fruit 

 They ripen the second year, but 

 remain on the tree for 4 years or 

 more. They are about 2 in. long, 

 and 1} in. in diameter at the base, 

 terminating in a sharp point; of 

 a bright cinnamon-red colour; 

 the swollen part of the scales is 

 convex, a little angular, and de- 

 pressed in the centre, where it is 

 of a greyish colour. The seeds 

 are nearly white, and much 

 larger than those of P. Laricio. 

 The wing, which is of the same 

 colour, is Jin. or more in length. 

 The only specimen of this pine 

 which Loiseleur Deslongchamps 

 had met with in France was that 

 above described at Alfort, where 

 it was under the name of P. hale- 

 plnsis, though it differed mate- 

 rially from that species in various 

 points, and particularly in having 

 its cones pointing horizontal- 

 ly, instead of downwards. Du 

 Hamel, in his Traitt des Arbres, 

 &c., published in 1755, gives a 

 description of this species, which 

 he says he received from M. 

 Gaultier of Quebec. He calls it P. canadensis bifblia, fbliis brevi6ribus et tenuioribus, le petit 

 pin rouge de Canada; in opposition to P. canadensis bifulia, cbnis mediis ovatis, le pin rouge de Ca- 

 nada, also received from M. Gaultier, and which is evidently the same as the P. rubra of Michaux, 

 P. resinbsa Ait. ; as Du Hamel expressly mentions that its timber was used for the mainmast of the 

 St Lawrence ; a fact also stated by Michaux. (See p. 2212.) He states that this pine was said to grow 

 near Montreal, on the batiks of the St. Lawrence. 



iii. Pindster. 



Sect. Char. Leaves long, straight, and stiff, comparatively broad. Cones 

 large, with rhomboidal, pyramidal terminations, pointed. Buds blunt- 

 pointed, imbricated, with the scales turned back, woolly, and wholly 

 without resin. 



1 12. P. PIXA'STER Ait. The Pinaster, or Cluster, Pine. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew.,ed. 1., 3. p. 367. ; Lamb. Pin.,1. t. 9. ; Mart. Mill., No. 2. ; Lawson's 

 Manual, p. 341.; Lodd. Cat., cd. 18.36 ; Hayne Dend., p. 172. 



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