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It forms a very ornamental smaU tree, with a rounded head, so 

 celebrated for producing the fine effect in the grounds of Italian 

 villas. There are the following varieties : — 



PiNUS PiNEA FEAGiLis, Du Hamel, the Thin-shelled Stone Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Pinea Tarentina, Manetti. 

 This variety differs in no way from, the species, except in 

 having a very thin shell to the seeds, which is easily broken, 

 and for that reason cultivated in Italy, Naples, and the South 

 of France, where there are some very large trees to be found, 

 under the name of the "Tarentina Pine." 



Pinus Pinea Cretica, Loudon. 



This variety has much larger cones, and slenderer leaves, and 

 comes from the island of Candia or Crete in the Mediterranean, 

 where it attains a larger size than the common Stone Pine. 



Cones of the Stone Pine are brought from China, under the 

 name of the " Kound-coned Chinese Pine," but they in no -vrajy 

 differ from the European form. 



No. 20. Pinus Pumilio, Hcenke, the Mountain Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Tatarica, Miller. 

 „ Carpaticaj Hort, 

 „ „ sylvestris Montana, Alton. 

 „ „ Mugo humilis, Neal. 

 „ Sudeticus, Ungrische. 

 Leaves in twos, curved, short, stiff, somewhat twisted, thickly 

 set on the branches, from two to two inches and a half long, with 

 long, lacerated, woolly, white sheaths when young, but which 

 afterwards, as they get older, become much shorter, and dark 

 brown, or nearly black. Cones from one to one inch and a half 

 long, and three-quarters of an inch broad near the base, two or 

 three growing together, pendulous, of a dull brown colour, and 

 bluntly egg-shaped. Scales about the size of those of the 

 Scotch Fir, but not so much elevated in the centre; Branches 

 turned upwards, and very numerous, forming a dense bush, 

 with the bottom branches creeping on the ground, but growing, 



