23 S PIN US, OR 



Syn. Pinus Cairica, Don. 

 ,, „ Paroliniaiia, Webb. 

 „ „ Colchica, Booth. 

 „ Arabica, Sieber. 



This variety differs from the species in having much longer 

 and larger cones, stiffer and longer leaves, and in the tree being 

 more compact, and growing to a much larger size. 



It is found growing plentiful on the shores of Abshasia, 

 (hence one of its names), around Pezundan, the ancient Pityus, 

 and from which circumstance also, it received the name of 

 Pityusa, a name given by M. Steeven, and according to whose 

 account the tree produces leaves sometimes scarcely more than 

 one and a half or two inches long, and very slender, while others 

 have foliage longer and stouter than those of P. Halepensis. 



It is also found growing on the Colchis Mountains, in Syria, 

 and on the coast of Greece. 



No. 9. PiNUS INOPS, Solander, the New Jersey Pine. 



Syn. Pinus Virginiana, Miller. 

 „ „ variabilis, Lambert. 



Leaves in twos, short, rigid, and sharp-pointed, from two 

 to two inches and a half long, bright green, and scattered 

 equally aU over the younger branches. Sheaths short, entire, 

 and a quarter of an inch long. Branches irregularly placed on 

 the stem, twisted, with the more slender branchlets pendulous, 

 and the young shoots covered with a fine, violet, glaucous 

 bloom. Buds blunt-pointed and resinous, and the stem and 

 larger branches produce tufts of leaves or abortive shoots. Cones 

 oblong-conical, tapering slightly to a blunt point, and drooping, 

 from two and three quarters to three inches long, and an inch 

 and a quarter broad, very hard, and of a glossy, yellowish 

 brown colour, with short, thick foot-stalks, and usually solitary. 

 Scales elevated, pyramidal, four-sided, terminating in an awl- 

 shaped, strong, projecting prickle, pointing outwards, or slightly 

 reflexed, and half an inch broad, and nearly all of a size. Seeds, 



