IOI4 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



has raised numerous seedlings. At Wimpole, near Cambridge, a well-shaped tree 

 measured 63 ft. by 7 ft. 3 in. in 1909. 



In Wales the largest I have seen is an ill-grown tree, at Maesllwch Castle, 

 forking at the ground, where it was 10 ft. 10 in. in girth in 1906. 



In Scotland the finest tree^ is probably one at Smeaton-Hepburn, planted in 

 1839, which was 76 ft. high in 1902, with a trunk 12 ft. in girth at two feet from the 

 ground, dividing above into three stems. At Keir, Perthshire, a fine tree measured 

 67 ft. by 6 ft. 3 in. in 1903. At Galloway House, Wigtownshire, there is a healthy 

 tree, about 40 ft. in height. 



In Ireland, there is a fine wide-spreading tree at Kilruddery, near Bray, which 

 in 1904 measured 65 ft. by 9 ft. 4 in. There are also good specimens at Castle- 

 martyr. At Brockley Park, Queen's County, a tree, dividing into several stems near 

 the base, was 64 ft. high in 1907. At Emo Park, Portarlington, another measured, 

 in the same year, 66 ft. by 6 ft. 9 in. 



Sargent ^ says that in New England it is hardy though short-lived ; but there 

 are large, healthy cone-bearing trees in Central Park, New York, and near many 

 cities of the middle states. (H. J. E.) 



PINUS PEUKE, Macedonian Pine 



Pinus Peuke, Grisebach, Spidleg. Flor. Rumel. ii. 349 (1844); Christ, in Flora, xlviii. 257, t. 2 

 (1865); Boissier, Flora Orientalis, v. 6g8 (1884); Masters, in Gard. Ckron. xix. 244, figs. 33," 

 34 (1883), and in Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bat), xxii. 205, figs. 30, 31 (1887), and xxxv. 581 (1904); 

 Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. j^e^'j (1900); Beck von Mannagetta, Vegetationsverhdlt. Elyrischen 

 Landern, 363-365 (1901); Clinton-Baker, Illust. Conif. i. 42 (1909). 



Pinus excelsa, J. D. Yiodke-r, Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot), viii. 145 (1864) (not Wallich). 



Pinus excelsa, Wallich, var. Pence, Beissner, Nadelholzkunde, 286 (1891). 



A tree, attaining in Bulgaria 100 ft. in height and 7 ft. in girth, narrowly 

 pyramidal in habit. Bark similar to that of P. excelsa. Buds ovoid, shortly acum- 

 inate, about I in. long, brown, resinous ; scales with long subulate free points. 

 Young branchlets smooth, glabrous, shining green, becoming brownish grey in the 

 second year. 



Leaves in fives, persistent two or three years, about 4 inches long, directed for- 

 wards and slightly outwards, not widely spreading or bent as in P. excelsa, slender, 

 straight, not twisted, serrulate, sharp-pointed, marked with stomatic lines on all 

 three surfaces ; resin-canals marginal ; basal sheath | in. long, early deciduous. 



Cones on short (less than \ in.) stalks, subterminal, spreading or pendulous, 

 green before ripening, brown when mature, cylindric, tapering to a blunt apex, 

 4 to 6 in. long, \\ to 2 in, in diameter. Scales broadly cuneate, thin, i\ to i^- in, 

 long, f in, broad ; apophysis slightly rounded or almost straight in the thin bevelled 

 upper margin, raised in the centre and marked exteriorly with longitudinal channels, 

 convex from side to side, ending in a small dark-coloured depressed umbo. Seed 



1 Cf. Hist. Berwickshire Nat. Club, xviii. 211 (1904). 2 Garden and Forest, x. 461 (1897). 



