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the cones of a less uniform grey, often of a slightly violet coloured 

 tint, dull or reddish; but the characters, be they taken from the 

 bads, be they taken from the cones, are not sufficiently marked, nor, 

 above all, sufficiently constant to furnish good_,means of distinction — 

 at least I have not found them such. 



" It is then essentially on those characteristics which I have given 

 above that I have founded my separation of the Haguenau from the 

 Eigas, and made it the type of the third series. 



"Of the pm sylvestre of Darmstadt some were sown in 1831 and 

 others planted in 1838. They have the same faults and the same 

 qualities as the preceding ; form disorderly and irregular ; trunk 

 thickened and vigorous, but often knotty and deformed by gour- 

 mandes ; the bark scarcely red, sometimes even grey, throughout the 

 whole height. As in the Haguenau, so in this, there are individuals 

 exempt from the faults of the mass, and promising for the future 

 very fine and good trees, or which ai-e such already ; but these are 

 few in number. 



" Of the pinus sylvestris var-montana, received also from Darm- 

 stadt, a row was planted in 1833. 



" These, from their descent, and the greater part of their characters, 

 it appears to me, cannot be classed otherwise than amongst the 

 Haguenau, but in a rank below both of the preceding. 



" Although their crowns may be less goii,r mandes than theirs, their 

 trunk is still more faulty — not so large in the first place, and very 

 much bent in half and more of the trees, and the bark is grey or 

 brown in almost all. This pine is one of those which show clearly 

 that there exist local varieties and bad varieties of the pin sylvestre, 

 which it is of importance to avoid in the formation of woods of this 

 pine." 



Intermediate between this class and that which follows, he places 

 a pin sylvestre from Champagne, of which he writes : " Two rows 

 were sown in 1831. The seeds were given to me by M. le Vicomte 

 Rinnard, one of the principal planters of pine forests on the chalk 

 soils of Champagne, and were the produce of these plantations. The 

 trees produced from them have not the character of the race, and 

 cannot be classed in any one of the series which I have established. 

 At first sight they look like a mixture of not very vigorous Haguenau 

 pines and pines of I'Ardeche. Examined more closely, it is seen that 

 the greater part are rather intermediate between the two. In regard 



