TAB. 1<5. 



11. PINUS VARIABILIS. 



VARIABLE-LEAVED BASTARD PINE. 



PiNUs VARIABILIS, folils biiiatis ternatisqiie, strobilis ovato-conicis subsolitariis; squamamm aculeis 



incur VIS. 



P. Tada variahilis y. Ait. Kezv. v. 3. 308. 



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P. ecJiinata, proslongis foliis tenuioribus, cono echinato gracili. Mill. Diet, n, 12. Wangenli. Beyt. "JA. 

 P. ecliinata. Marshall. Arh. Amcr. 100. 



P. ecliinata, foliis geminis et ternis, conis oblongis incurvis; aculeis squamarum reflexis. Du Roi 

 Harhck. ed. Fott. V. 2, 51. 



Habitat in America Septentrionali. 

 Floret Maio. 



DESCEIPTIO. 



Arbor mediocris. Folia binata vel ternata, biunclalia, canaliculata, margine nervoque scabra, apice 

 subcarinata; VagiruB breves, strictse, minus corrugates. Amenta nondum vidi. Strohili solitarii, 



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recurvato-pcnduli, anguste ovati, muricati, spinis subincurvatis, squamis medio dilatatis. 



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I HAVE never seen more than two trees of this species in England; one at Pain's Hill, where I 

 procured specimens for the engraving; the other at Kew. 



The native situation of P. variahilis is the sea-shore of North America, or at no great distance from 

 it, in a sandy, but mixed kind of soil. In New York under the forty-first degree of north latitude, 

 its height is seldom above forty feet, and the shaft or trunk, not more than fifteen or twenty, parting 

 then Into branches pretty distant from one another. The barl is brownish and deeply cracked. The 

 wood has a spunglness and lightness which deprives it of durability, and renders it useless In building, 

 or Indeed for any purposes of a similar kind, but it Is tolerably Ml of resin, so that the Americans 

 employ It for Its tar and pitch. The leaves are two Inches long, and pointed; In colour, dark green. 

 The flowers appear at the beginning of May, and the seed ripens in November. The cone is about 

 three inches long, and two thick at the base, it is rather bent at the top. The scales have a yellowish- 

 brown tinge, and there are thorny points of a strong woody texture projecting from them. The seeds 

 are smaller than in P. sylvestris. 



EXPLANATION OF TAB. 15. 



a, a. Leaves with their sheaths. 

 B. Point of a leaf 



c. ■ Bipe Cone. 



d, d. Scales of the same. 



e. 



Seed. 



