6 Nex<o hardy Trees and Shrubs 



trees and shrubs. It certainly appears more like a species of 

 Taxodium than of Taxus. 



CoNi'FERiE. — Vlmis Gerardxkna Arh, Brit. p. 2254. Leaves 

 3 in a sheath. The seeds from which the Neoza pine was 

 raised in the garden of Society, and for the first time true, were 

 received from His Excellency Lord Auckland, who transmitted 

 them overland to Dr. Lindley ; he being aware, before he left 

 Eno-land, that all the plants sold by the nurserymen, or raised by 

 private individuals, under the above names, were nothing more 

 than P. longifolia. The young plants are very robust, and, like 

 those of ^^bies Sm\\hidna, the points of the young plants recurve 

 towards the ground, a thing I never observed before in any of 

 the true pines. This species is quite hardy. 



Vinus Teocote Arh. Brit. p. 2266. Leaves 3 in a sheath. 

 A large quantity of cones of this species, received from M. 

 Hartweg, were distributed by the Society. It is a very distinct 

 3-leaved species, with very small cones, remarkably like those 

 of the P. sylvestris. The drawing of the cone in the Arh. Brit. 

 is too large, and is probably that of P. leiophylla. It is from 

 the Ocotillo, and grows from 40 ft. to 50 ft. high. The seeds 

 have vegetated freely. 



Yinus patida Arb. Brit. p. 2267. Leaves 3 in a sheath. 

 This is another pine, of which a large quantity of the seeds 

 were distributed by the Society. It is a 3-leaved species, with 

 the cones growing in clusters of six or eight ; they are very 

 hard, of a yellowish brown colour, mostly horn-shaped, and 

 from 3 to 4' in. long. It is from Guajolote, growing 60 or 70 feet 

 high. The seeds have vegetated freely. 



Vinus Hartwegn Lindl. Bot. Reg. Miscel. 95. 1837. Leaves 

 4 — 5 in a sheath. This very handsome pine was collected by 

 M. Hartweg for the Society, and in compliment to him it 

 has been named by Dr. Lindley. It is very curious in having 

 the leaves mostly four in a sheath, but sometimes five. The 

 cones are 4 in. long, slightly curved, tapering to a point, and of 

 a dark brown colour, with the scales nearly flat. M. Hartweg 

 sent it from the Campanario, where he found it a tree 40 or 50 

 feet high, and beginning to appear where the oyamel, or ^^bies 

 religiosa, ceases to grow, about 9000 ft. above the sea, and hence 

 it will prove hardy. The seeds have been distributed largely, 

 and have vegetated tolerably well. 



Vhiiis Devonmna Li}idl., Bot. Reg. Miscel. 96. 1809. Leaves 

 5 in a sheath. This noble species of pine has the leaves five in 

 a sheath, and nearly a foot long. The cones are about 10 in. 

 long, 3^ in. broad at the base, and tapering to a blunt point, with 

 the scales nearly flat. It is the " Pino bianco," or " Pino 

 real" of the Mexicans, and was raised in the garden of the 

 Society from seeds collected by M. Hartweg, who describes it 



