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"ihis class of the Californian Pines. It has niimerons, stout, spreading, 

 and somewhat irregularly disposed branches, with large, dark brown, 

 imbricated, and non-resinous buds : the leaves from eight to twelve 

 inches in length, dark green in colour, and generally three in a sheath: 

 cones generally in clusters of from three to five in number, straight, 

 and minus foot-stalks ; from five to seven inches in length, and about 

 half as broad (at their thickest part,) as long. The timber is compara- 

 tively good, and durable for pine wood ; and lighter and more elastic 

 than that of Ponderosa, and the tree is hardy, and useful either for its 

 wood or beauty in the woods and plantations of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, where a good loam, or sandy free soil can be given it. 



PiNUS Bonaparte A : The Bonaparte Pine. 



Tliis was discovered by that prince of impostors in the Pine line — 

 Eoezl ; and is fully descanted upon, and described by Gordon in his 

 book, " The Pinetum." I have seen nothing of it but seed, seedlings, 

 and youaig plants, which seem hardy enough for ordinary winters in 

 the south of England ; yet, from what I have seen of it, I think it 

 will have to be referred to that now numerous group the Gemhra- 

 Strohus type. It will never be of any economic value for its timber in 

 this country, and but little for its beauty or ornamental equalities, see- 

 ing we already possess many kinds in the same group more hardy and 

 distinct. 



PiNUS BraCHYPTERA: The Short- Wing Seeded Pine. 



" Leaves in twos, threes, or fours, dark green, three to six inches 

 long ; branches horizontal. Cones two to three inches long, and one 

 to tAVO inches broad ; scales elevated, recurved, and spiny-pointed. 

 Seeds three lines long, and two lines broad, with the wing shorter 

 than the seeds." So says Mr. Gordon. 



Messrs. Wislizenus and Englemann, state that it is : — " A hand- 

 some tree, eighty to one hundred feet high, and two to three feet in 

 diameter ; found abundantly on the mountains of l^ew Mexico." 

 This is all I have as yet seen of this " The Short- Wing Seeded Pine." 



PiNUS Brutia: The Fragrant-Juiced Pine. 



This is a Calabrian form of the manj^ quasi-species of the Aleppo 

 Pine ; and like all of them vastly inferior to the prototype Corsica as 

 a timber tree ; but from its hardiness, and accommodating nature as to 

 soil and situation, it is useful enough for ornamental or shelter planta- 

 tions, or for adding number and variety to a piiietum or arboretum. 



PiNUS BuNGEANA: The Epidermis-Barked Pine. 



This is a puerile phrase, a bad metaphor, and an ugly name for so 



