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Arboricultural Notices, supplementary to 



Lordship says that the tree at Mr. Harrison's is undoubtedly the true Es- 

 carena, and, as he thinks, is nothing more than a variety of Pinus sylvestris. 



We have subsequently (Feb. 15th) received a copy of the Pinetum Wo- 

 lurncnsc, but too late to make any use of it in the present Number. 



P. 'Pinaster Aberdd?nx. — As the variety of Pinaster to which the name of 

 Escarena has been given is a very distinct one, we propose, in future to 

 distinguish it as P. Pinaster Aberdonia?, in honour of the nobleman who first 

 introduced it. 



P. Llaveima, Arb. Brit. p. 2267., Hart. Lig. p. 1 20. — We figured and 

 described this species from the young plant in the Horticultural Society's 

 garden, and from a cone sent to us by M. Otto of Berlin. M. Otto could 

 give us no information whatever respecting the species, except that he had 

 received the cone from a traveller in Mexico. It now turns out that this 

 traveller had made a mistake, and sent M. Otto a cone of a different species. 

 For this statement, we have the authority of M. Otto's letter of Nov. 27. 

 1838. In that excellent publication the Linncea, part. iv. of vol. xii., pub- 

 lished in the autumn of 1838, is a paper by the editor, Dr. von Schlechtendal, 

 entitled " Preliminary Information on the Coniferae of Mexico," of which the 

 following is an outline, with a description of P. L\aved?m, and of two new 

 species, P. oocarpa. and P. Ayacahuite : — 



§ Leaves standing singly. (/l x bies and Picea of Arb. Brit.) 

 Phius religiosa, Linnaea, vol. xii. p. 486. (Picea religiosa, Arb. Brit. 

 p. 2349.) 



Pimis hirtclla, Linnaea, vol. xii. p. 487. (Picea hirtella, Arb. Brit. p. 2349.) 



$ Leaves standing Three in a Tujt. 

 Virtus Teocdte, Linncea, vol. xii. p. 487. ; Arb. Brit. p. 2266. 

 P. pdtula, Linnaea, vol. xii. p. 487. ; Arb. Brit. p. 2267. 

 P. Llavekna Schiede, in Linncea, vol. xii. p. 488. ; Arb. Brit. p. 2267. — 

 " This beautiful and remarkable species," observes Dr. von Schlechtendal, 

 " was first raised in the Berlin Botanic Garden, from the seeds of a cone 

 which Dr. Schiede sent to the editor of the Linncea. The species was intro- 

 duced into England from the Berlin Garden, and was described and figured by 

 Loudon in his Arboretum Britannicum, p. 2267., but, unfortunately, with a 

 wrong cone ; which, from its appearance, probably belongs to the foregoing 

 species [P. patula.] P. Llave«Mfl is the species that has very well tasted 

 edible seeds, which are sold cheap in Mexico under the name of Pinones. 

 Schiede found whole forests of this tree scarcely 30 ft. high, between Zimapan 

 and Real del Oro ; it is also cultivated occasionally in gardens. The leaves, 

 which are only l^in. long, are generally slightly twisted, pointed, strong, and 



23 two-furrowed below 



with a sharp, keel- 

 shaped, projecting mi- 

 drib. The cones are 

 small, consisting of 

 very few scales, which 

 are about ljin. long, 

 roundish, and obtuse. 

 The scales are keel- 

 shaped below, deeply 

 w concave,with two deep 



receptacles for the seeds. The rhomboidal enlargement of the points of the 

 scales is of a pale brown colour, faintly shining, the diameter about 9 lines, 

 and the length about 6 lines ; the middle compartment is of a darker brown, 

 and only about 3 lines broad ; a projecting and tolerably sharp band runs 

 across the rhomboidal termination of the scales, by which the whole middle 

 compartment is elevated ; some inconsiderable and more or less distinct bands 

 run from the upper point, and from the under edge to the middle compart- 

 ment. The outermost as well as the central scales are usually empty ; and 



