iio6 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



which I counted about sixty whorls, the oldest of which were nearly buried in 

 the bark. At Eastnor Castle, a tree was about 40 ft. by 6 ft. in 1907, with large 

 bunches of cones, no less than thirty-seven of which were counted in one cluster. 



At The Heath, Leighton Buzzard, a large but ill-shaped tree measured 55 ft. by 

 7 ft. 2 in. in 1908. At Flitwick Manor, Bedford, Mr. H. Clinton- Baker measured in 

 1908, a tree 64 ft. by 8 ft. 8 in. At Essendon Place, Herts, there is a fine wide- 

 spreading tree,^ 49 ft. by 7 ft. 3 in. in 1906. At Garston Manor, Watford, Sir Hugh 

 Beevor found one which measured 64 ft. by 6 ft. 3 in. in 1909. At Brickendon 

 Grange, in the same county, there is a tree, about 25 ft. high, from the seed of which, 

 obtained by heating in an oven an old cone from a main branch, Mr. J. Trotter raised 

 seedlings in 1907. At Bayfordbury, a tree planted in 1850 measures 45 ft. by 4 ft. 



7 in. ; and numerous seedlings were raised in 1906 from the seed in its old cones. 



A healthy wide-spreading tree at Enville Hall, Stourbridge, measured 56 ft, by 



8 ft. 9 in. in 1904. At Highnam, Gloucestershire, there is a tree with a divided 

 stem about 60 ft. high. At Hafodunos, North Wales, a wide -spreading tree, 

 densely clothed to the ground, was 56 ft. by 7 ft. 3 in. in 1905. 



In Scotland, Sir Herbert Maxwell reports a tree of this species at Stonefield, 

 Argyllshire ; and Mr. Austin Mackenzie measured a tree at Carradale, in the same 

 county, 43 ft. by 4 ft. 9. in. in 1906. At Castle Kennedy, a spreading tree, bearing 

 numerous cones, was 35 ft. by 5 ft. 7 in. in 1904. 



In Ireland,^ the finest specimens, five in number, are growing in Lauragh 

 churchyard, near Derreen, one of which in 1907 measured 66 ft. by 6 ft. There is 

 also a tree about 50 ft. high in the grounds of Derreen. At Coolattin, Co. Wicklow, 

 a tree, very vigorous in growth and coning freely, was 42 ft. by 4 ft. 8 in. in 1906. 

 At Castlemacgarrett, Co. Mayo, another measured 49 ft. by 5 ft. 9 in. in 1904. 



(H. J. E.) 



PINUS PUNGENS 



Pinus pungens, Lambert, in Konig and Sims, Ann. Botany, ii. 198 (1806); Michaux f.. Hist. Arb. 

 Amer. i. 61, t. 5 (1810) ; Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2197 (1838) ; Sargent, Silva N. Amer. 

 xi. 135, t. 584 (1897), and Trees N. Amer. 33 (1905) ; Kent, Veitch's Man. Coniferce, 367 (1900) ; 

 Masters, mjourn. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xxxv. 623 (1904); Clinton-Baker, Illust. Conif. i. 47 (1909). 



A tree, attaining 60 ft. in height and 9 ft. in girth ; but usually smaller with a 

 short thick trunk, frequently clothed to the ground, and forming a flat-topped or 

 rounded head of foliage. Bark i in. thick, broken into irregular reddish brown scaly 

 plates. Young branchlets glabrous, shining brown, with projecting pulvini, separated 

 by linear grooves. Buds cylindrical, pointed, about | in. long, resinous. 



Leaves in pairs, deciduous in the second and third years, crowded on the 

 branchlets, spreading, dark green, stout, rigid, curved, twisted, 2 to 2^ in. long, 

 serrulate, ending in a sharp cartilaginous point, marked with numerous stomatic 

 lines on both surfaces ; resin-canals median ; basal sheath f in. long. 



1 According to an account of the pinetum at Essendon in Card. Ckron., 1866, p. 950, this tree was, in 1866, 35 ft. 

 high, and bore cones twenly years old on the branches. 



2 In Card. Chron., 1869, p. 193, a tree, 20 ft. high, was reported as growing at Somerville, near Navan, Co. Meath, 

 which had branches with seven to nine whorls of cones. 



