1096 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



and the only tree ^ which we have found is one growing at Bicton which Mr. H. 

 Clinton -Baker measured in 1908, as 50 ft. in height, and 6 ft. 9 in. in girth at 

 3 ft. from the ground. This tree bears cones ; ^ but the seed does not seem to be 

 fertile. The leaves are 4^ to 5 in. in length, much shorter than is usual in American 



trees of this species. 



At Geneste, near Bordeaux, I saw several large trees of this pine in 1909 

 growing near the pitch pines, which they much exceeded in size. The largest was 

 92 ft. by g^ ft., and bore abundant cones, which produce fertile seed, and natural 

 reproduction is here common. Another was 95 ft. by 9 ft., a third about 85 ft. 

 by 9 J ft. Mademoiselle Ivoy informed me that the resin of this tree was much more 

 aromatic than that of the native P. Pinaster. 



Mr. Weale sends us the following note : — " Loblolly pine is not imported into 

 this country in steady quantities and is often sold as Carolina pine. When pitch 

 pine is imported in the form of sawn boards, this wood is frequently observed amongst 

 them. It is not comparable with pitch pine in strength and durability, and cannot 

 hope to find a market upon any other considerations than those of price." 



Though the wood of this species contains but little less resin than that of P. 

 palustris, and the composition and the distribution of the resin in the log are the same 

 in both species, yet for some unexplained reason the resin of the Loblolly pine does 

 not flow freely, and hardens so rapidly on exposure that it cannot be worked. The 

 statements frequently made ^ as regards the use of this tree for resin are erroneous 

 and can only be explained by a confusion of names, and it is most likely that the 

 Cuban pine (/". caribcea) was referred to.* (H. J. E.) 



PINUS CANARIENSIS, Canary Pine 



Pinus canariensis, Ch. Smith, in Buch, Fhys. Beschr. Canar. Ins. 159 (1825); De Candolle, PI. Rar. 

 Jard. Geneve, i. tt. i, 2 (1829); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2261 (1838); Webb et 

 Berthelot, Phyt. Canar. iii. 280, Atlas, t. 6 (1845-50); Christ, in Engler, ^«?/. Jahrb. vi. 486 

 (1885); Masters, in Gard. Chron. iii. 723, f. 94 (1888), and in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxv. 

 593 (1904); Clinton-Baker, ///«j^. Conif. i. 13 (1909). 



A tree, attaining 80 ft. in height and 10 ft. or more in girth. Bark thick, 

 reddish, slightly fissured, and separating on the surface into irregular scales. Young 

 branchlets glabrous, yellow, with prominent keeled pulvini. Buds ovoid, acute, f in. 

 long, i in- broad ; scales reddish brown, matted together at the base by their marginal 

 white fimbriae, spreading, with their tips free and reflexed. The apices of the 

 branchlets of the second and third years are each marked with a conspicuous sheath 

 of the persistent reflexed bud-scales. 



Leaves in threes, persistent two years, densely crowded on the branchlets, 

 spreading, 7 to 12 in. (averaging 9 in.) long, ^^ in. wide, flexible, serrulate, ending 

 in a fine cartilaginous point, with two to four stomatic lines on each of the three 

 sides ; marginal canals median ; basal sheath | in. long. 



1 The tree at Tortworth Court, mentioned as P. Tceda by Kent in Veitch's Manual, p. 383, is P. rigida. 



2 Figured by Clinton-Baker, Illust. Conif. i. 54 (1909). 



3 As in Bastin and Trimble, North American Conifera, 44 (1897). < Cf. Mohr, op. cit. 121. 



