42 New Trees. 



beauty and merit. As we walk iiudev clusters of flowers, white as snow, 

 tinged with gold, purple as the grape, blue as the expanse of Heaven, and 

 blushing as the cheek of modesty, we are led to imagine ourselves al- 

 most in fairy land, or in a better world, where every delicate sense is de- 

 lighted, and all around breathes fragrance and expands beauty — where 

 every thing seems to participate in the laughing joy of Nature. 



NEW TREES. 

 A. Miirrai/, in Edinb. new Phil. Journal. 



fiNus Beardsleyi. 



" The tree is of great beauty and size ; one which was cut down mea- 

 sured 123 feet in height, and 44 inches in diameter at the stump. An- 

 other tree near it measured 17 feet 4 inches in circumference at 3 feet 

 from the ground. The stem was a very handsome column about 30 feet 

 to the first branch ; timber good and clear. It wasfound on the top of a 

 mountain, in lat. 41 deg. N., at the same altitude as Pinus Jeffreyi and 

 monticola, and Abies grandis, and higher than P. Benthamiana and Zaw- 

 hertiana. 



" This and the following species (^Crair/ana) seem to have more affinity 

 with P. Benthamiana than any other described species. But the present 

 species has the points of the umbo of the scale pointing towards the base 

 of the cone, while in Benthamiana they point to the tip ; the cone of 

 Benthamiana is 6 inches long, while Beardsleyi is only 3 inches. The 

 leaves are 11 inches in length, while in Beardsleyi they are only 6 iu- 

 ches. The sheath of the leaf in Benthamiana is an inch long, while iu 

 Beardsleyi it is only an eighth of an inch. The wing of the seed of 

 Benthamiana is much larger and longer than that of Beardsleyi. The 

 timber of Beardsleyi is homogeneous all through. The heart of Bentha- 

 miana is redder than the sap-wood, and the sap-wood occupies a great 

 breadth of the stem. Beardsleyi grows much further up the mountains 

 than Benthamiana. The distinction between the cones of these trees will 

 be sufficiently seen from the rough etchings which I have given. The 

 figure of the cone oi Benthamiana is copied from that given by Hartweg^ 

 Like all that gentleman's figures and descriptions, it is very characteristic 

 of the cone as it is generally found, but it is inaccurate as a representa- 

 tion of the cone in its complete state, in so for that it represents the hook- 



