Pinetum fVoburnense. 267 



This is another variety of Scotch pine ; a variety it may be called, differing 

 scarcely, if at all, from the species. How the specific name Escarena came to 

 be applied to a variety of Pinaster in the Hort. Soc. Garden, and in the Pine- 

 tum Dropmoriense, we have explained in this Magazine at p. 129. 



M. Risso describes the Escarena pine as having a stem long, straight, thin, 

 destitute of branches at the base, and furnished towards the summit with a 

 large horizontal cap, which resembles that of the meleza (larch). This and 

 the other details of description appear to us to apply to a particular tree 

 growing in a particular situation, rather than to the species ; because no one 

 would think of describing the larch as characterised by a large horizontal cap, 

 though undoubtedly larches may be found with this appearance, both in their 

 native habitats on the Alps, and in our artificial plantations in Britain. This 

 Escarena pine is farther distinguished, M. Risso says, by its erectness and 

 height, standing often like a pollard in a wood of other trees of its congeners. 

 By pollard is evidently here meant, not what is called a pollard in England, 

 but a tall tree with a naked stem, crowned with a few branches at top, such 

 as in Evelyn's time was called a dottard. It is said to exude small tears of 

 a kind of whitish concrete manna, which is employed as a purge for children. 

 " The wood of this pine is preferred to all others of the tribe by the car- 

 penter," and the cones are without resin, and but little combustible. M. 

 Risso forwarded specimens of the P. Escarena to Woburn, which appeared to 

 Mr. Forbes indentical with P. sylvestris. The Earl of Aberdeen, in a 

 letter to the Duke of Bedford, says : " When I brought the seeds from 

 Nice, I gave them to my gardener, together with the seeds of P. maritima, 

 P. Pinea, and one or two others. The plant which I gave to Lord Gren- 

 ville, and those which I have here, under the name of P. Escarena, I 

 have no doubt were erroneously so called by my gardener, who mistook one 

 parcel of seed for the other, and that the plant in question is either the 

 P. maritima or P. Laricio ; in fact, a variety of Pinus Pinaster. The real 

 P. Escarena, I well remember, very much resembled the Pinus sylvestris, 

 although I think there was a marked difference ; but, as I have not any de- 

 scription at hand, I cannot now specify it. The tree is not to be seen near 

 Nice, but I found it in considerable numbers at a place called Torretto, about ten 

 or twelve miles from Nice, or more, in the direction of the valley of St. Andre." 



The variety of P. Pinaster which the Earl of Aberdeen brought to England 

 being a very handsome and very distinct variety, we have named it in p. 128. 

 P. Pinaster Aberddni^. 



Pinus Banksikna, Pin. Wob. pi. 3., Arb. Brit. p. 2190., Hort. Lig. p. 118. 



Vinus inops, Pin. Wob. pi. 4., Arb. Brit. p. 2192., Hort. Lig. p. 118. 



Vinus pungens, Pin. Wob. pl.5., Arb. Brit. p. 2197., Hort. Lig. p. 118. 



Finns resinbsa, Pin. Wob. p. 6., Arb. Brit. p. 2210., Hort. Lig. p. 119. 



Vinus Pallasihna, Pin. Wob. pi. 7., Arb. Brit. p. 2206., Hort. Lig. p. 119. 

 A considerable number of this pine were planted out on a sandy piece of 

 ground in Woburn Park, where they have now formed handsome trees. 



Vinus Laricio, Pin. Wob. p. 23., Arb. Brit. p. 2204., Hort. Lig. p. 118. 



Vi?ius halepensis, Pin. Wob. pi. 8., Arb. Brit. p. 2231., Hort. Lig. p. 119. 

 This is the first species which Mr. Forbes identifies with the same species in our 

 Arboretum Britannicum, from which we conclude that the Pinetum Woburnense 

 had been printed thus far before the numbers of the Arboretum which contain 

 the pines had appeared. 



Vinus brutia, Pin. Wob. pi. 9., Arb. Brit. p. 2234., Hort. Lig. p. 119. The 

 Earl of Mountnorris, Mr. Forbes observes, was the first person in England 

 that raised this pine from seeds. Sprengel has referred it to P. Pinaster, not 

 even, allowing it the rank of a variety. 



Vinus Vinaster, Pin. Wob. p. 29., Arb. Brit. p. 2213., Hort. Lig. p. 119. 



Vinus Vindster variegdta, Pin. Wob. p. 30., Arb. Brit. p. 2217., Hort. Lig. 

 p. 119. 



Vinus Vinea, Pin. Wob. pi. 106. Arb. Brit. p. 2224., Hort. Lig. p. 119. 

 The prophet Hosea (xiv. 8.) says, " I am like a green fir tree : from me 

 is thy fruit found." This, says Mr. Forbes, alludes to the P. Pinea, or stone 



