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form rising only 2 or 3 feet from the ground ; and rostrata or 

 montana has unusually long curved prickles on the cones. 

 Mountainous regions of Central Europe. 



8. P. Plnea (fig. 

 216). Stone Pine, 

 Parasol Pine. This 

 species is remarkable for 

 its rounded head and 

 intense green foliage 

 from 6 to 8 inches long. 

 Cones about 6 inches 

 long ; scales prominent, 

 convex and woo^y, ter- 

 minating in a recurved 

 obtxse prickle. Seeds 

 with a very small wing. 

 A native of the Mediter- 

 ranean region. 



There are several other 

 species of this section in 

 cultivation, but we must 

 be content with enume- 

 rating a few of the better 

 known ones. P. densi- 

 flora^ Japan ; P. Brutia, 

 Italy; P. Pallasiana, 

 syn. P. Taiirica, Crimea ; 

 P. mltisj P. inops, and 

 P. resinosa, North America. 



Fig. 216. Pinus Pinea. 



2. Leaves usually three in each sheath. 



9. P. insignis, syn. P. Calif ornica. Oregon Pitch Pine. 

 This is without doubt one of the handsomest of the genus, 

 though unfortunately rather tender in some localities. It is a 

 large tree of close habit, with crowded slightly appressed dark 

 green slender soft flexible leaves about 4 or 5 inches long, 3 (or 

 more rarely 4) together in a short persistent sheath. Native 

 of California. 



10. P. Benthamiana. A gigantic tree, sometimes exceeding 

 200 feet in its native country. Branches thick, horizontal, in 

 distant whorls. Leaves from 8 to 12 inches long, flexible, 

 sometimes twisted, not glaucous. Cones clustered, 3 or 4 



