TAB. 3. 



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3. PINUS BANKSIANA. 



LABRADOR PINE 



PiNus Banksiana foliis geminis divaricatis obliquis, strobilis recurvis tortis, anthcrarum crista diktat 



a 



P. sylvestrls divaricata ^. J_it. Keza. v. 3. 366, 



P. canadensis bifolia, foliis curds at falcatis, conis mediis incuryis. BicJiaviel. Arh. v. 2. \16, n. 10.? 



tiabitat in America septentrionali. 

 Floret Maio. 



DESCRIPTIO. 



^rZior ramosissima, patula, ramis longissimis. .Fo/ia uncialia, falcata. Amenta madcula cylindracea; 

 antheris sessilibus, crista reniformi, emarginata, crenata, utrinque prominula. Strohili biui vel terni, 

 sesslles, magnitudine P. ^ylve^tru sed graclliores, pallidiores, flayescentes, acuminati, et insigniter 

 incurvato-torti. 



The specimen represented in tlie plate was taken from a remarkably fine tree growing at 'Pain's 

 Hill, Surrey. The branches of this tree bore more fruit than any species I have seen. The cones were 

 not more than fiN& or six inches distant from one another in scarcely any part of the tree, and they were 

 growing two or three together. Many of the young shoots were covered with resin, the odour of 

 which was inconceivably fragrant. It flowered, I was informed, earher in the spring than any other 

 Pine. It is most partial to a sandy soil. The hranche^ shoot very thickly almost the whole of its 

 height, and consequently render the timber too knotty to be made into good masts, though it is very 

 pliable, and contains a great quantity of resin. The leaver do not differ much from those of P. jyZ- 

 ve^tri4, except that they are curved and divaricated, the pairs touching each other at their extremities 

 so as to form a sort of ring. The coned are curved in a similar manner, having the appearance of horns 

 springing from the branches ; they are of nearly the same thickness as those of the Scotch Fir, but rather 

 longer. At present P. BanlzMa7ia is very rare in England; I know only three of any size, one of which 

 is at Pain's Hill, and this is certainly the finest; one at Kew, and the other at Croome, the seat of the 

 Earl of Coventry. It is surprising that this species should ever have been supposed to be a variety of 

 P. dylveUru, the one being an American, the other an European tree. I am not acquainted with any 

 tiuthor who has noticed it, except Mr. Alton in his Uorhu Kewendu, Whether Duhamel's species 

 above quoted be the same, may be questioned; but as he mentions the cones to be remarkably contorted, 



' This beautiful spot was the seat of the late Hon. Charles Hamilton. It is now in the occupation of Moffat, Escj. Linnaeus 



the son visited those gardens in company with Sir Joseph Banks, and expressed himself highly gratified in viewing their productions. 



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