CHAP. CXI 1 1. 



CONI'FEK^E. 



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of a deeper 

 in. in length. Buds f in. 



been produced by inarching, is supposed to be the only one still existing, of 

 those raised from the seeds sent home by Colladon. It is protected every 

 winter; while those that were planted in the open ground, in the Jardin des 

 Plantes, are ail dead. The species is interesting, especially to the French, 

 as being the only plant that has been preserved, of those sent home by the 

 expedition under La Peyrouse. The plant in the Horticultural Soci- 

 ety's Garden, named there P. montherage'nsis, which was received from M. 

 Godefroy about 1829, forms a stunted bush, 3 ft. high, and 4 ft. or 5 ft. broad. 

 It is a grafted plant ; and its stunted appearance may be chiefly owing to the 

 scion having swelled to a much greater thickness than the stock, and 

 to the buds having been destroyed by insects for several years past. 

 The buds are small, about fin. "long, blunt-pointed, about -^ in. broad, 

 brown, and covered with resin. The leaves are chiefly 3 in a sheath, and from 

 2 in. to 3 in. long, with short black sheaths. 



P. Frdseri Lodd. Cat., ed. 1837. There is a tree bearing this name in the 

 Hackney arboretum, which, in 1837, was upwards of 12 ft. high, with 3 leaves 

 in a sheath, and pendulous branches reaching to the ground. The leaves 

 and young shoots have every appearance of those of P. rigida; and, though 

 the tree has not yet borne cones, we have little doubt of its belonging to the 

 CTaeMae. The plant was received from the Liverpool Botanic Garden in 1820. 



P. timoriensis. A tree at Boyton, which, in 1837, was 16ft. high, after 

 being 25 years planted, was raised from seed received by Mr. Lambert 

 from Timor, one of the Molucca Islands. It bears a close general resem- 

 blance in the foliage and habit to P. longifolia ; but the leaves (of which 

 there are three in a sheath) are rather more slender, and 

 green ; they are 8 in. long, and the sheaths about 

 long, and f in. broad, covered with 

 loose whitish scales, without resin, 

 and blunt-pointed. The tree has not 

 yet borne cones, so that nothing with 

 certainty can be determined respect- 

 ing the group to which it belongs ; 

 but, in the mean time, we have, for 

 convenience' sake, given it the name 

 of P. timoriensis. 



App. ii. Pines supposed to have 

 3 Leaves, but of which the 

 Cones only have been seen in 

 Britain. The Cones are 

 hooked or tubercled. 



t 32. P. MURICA'TA D. Don. The 



smaller prickly-con/ Pine. 

 Identification. Lin. Trans., 17. p. 441. ; Lamb. 



Pin., 3. t.84. 



Synonyme. Obispo, Span. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., 3. t. 84. ; and our 



fig- 2180. 



Spec. Char., $c. ? Leaves in threes. 

 Cones ovate, with unequal sides, 

 crowded ; scales wedge-shaped, flat- 

 tenedat the apex,mucronate; those 

 at the external base elongated, com- 

 pressed, recurved, and spreading. 

 (D. Don.} Cones, in Lambert's 

 figure, 2 in. long, and 3 in. broad. 



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