1064 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



in 1854 ; another specimen planted in 1875 is now 20 ft. high and 2 ft. 3 in. in girth. 

 At Flitwick Manor, Bedford, a tree measured in 1908, 34 ft. by 2 ft. 7 in. Much 

 finer trees, most of them producing cones, exist farther west, as at Westonbirt, where 

 a tree planted in 1869 measured in 1909, 45 ft. high, and looked very vigorous. 

 At Bicton there are two good specimens, 74 ft. by 5 ft. 3 in. and 46 ft. by 4 ft. 4 in. 

 At Eastnor Castle, a fine tree was 55 ft. by 4 ft. 8 in. in 1909. At Bury Hill, 

 Dorking, a tree, which R. Barclay, Esq., informs us was planted in 1847, is 36 ft. 

 high and 3 ft. 8 in. in girth at 4 ft. from the ground. At Strete Raleigh, Exeter, 

 H. M. Imbert Terry, Esq., reports a tree 52 ft. by 5 ft. 11 in., from which he raised 

 about fifty seedlings in the spring of 1909. It was planted about 1855. At Pen- 

 carrow a tree measured 44 ft. by 3 ft. in 1906. At Escot, Devonshire, the seat of 

 Sir John Kennaway, Elwes measured a tree 65 ft. by 7 ft. in 1909, with a clean bole 

 about 35 ft. long, which is the finest of its kind that he has seen. We have also 

 received specimens of this variety from Wadebridge and Luscombe Castle, Dawlish. 

 A third form, represented by a tree at Menabilly,^ and another at Fota, has 

 longer leaves and longer cones than in var. Hartwegii, though the latter are similar 

 in every respect except in size, and may be referred in all probability to var. rudis. 

 The tree at Fota (Plate 278) is a fine one, and measured 50 ft. by 7 ft. 3 in. in 1908, 

 the branches covering an area 52 paces around. Lord Barrymore informs us that it 

 was planted in 1878. (A. H.) 



PINUS PSEUDOSTROBUS 



Pinus pseudostrobus, Lindley, in Bot. Reg. xxv. Misc. 63 (1839); Loudon, Entycl. Trees, 1008, figs. 



1887, 1 888 (i 842) ; Masters, mjourn. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xxxv. 605 (i 904) ; Shaw, Pines of Mexico, 



19, t. xii. (1909). 

 Pinus Orizaba, Gordon, m. Journ. Hort. Soc. i. 237 (1846). 



A tree attaining 100 ft. in height and 6 ft. in diameter. Bark of branches and 

 young trees smooth ; in old trees very rough at the base. Branchlets slender, 

 glabrous, very glaucous ; the decurrent bases of the leaves persistent, conspicuous at 

 first, but ultimately becoming merged in the smooth bark of the older branchlets, on 

 which they are visible as transverse lines. Buds and leaves, the latter 6 to 1 2 in. 

 long, similar to those of P. Montezumce, but usually more slender. 



Cones sub-terminal, described by Shaw as ovate or oblong, 3 to 5^ in. long, 

 nearly symmetrical or oblique, opening when ripe and falling soon afterwards, the 

 peduncle and a few basal scales usually remaining persistent on the branch ; apophysis 

 variable, flat or protuberant. 



I. Var. apulcensis, Shaw, Pines of Mexico, 19, t. xii. (1909). 



Pinus apulcensis, Lindley, in Bot. Reg. xxv. Misc. 63 (1839) ; Loudon, Encycl. Trees, 1014, figs. 1899, 

 1900 (1842). 



Differs in the prolongation of the apophyses of the scales of the cone. It grows 



' Figured in Card. Chron., lee. cit. It bore cones in 1899, when it was 20 ft. high, but Mr. Rashleigh said that no 

 perfect seed was produced. 



