256 PINUS, OB 



much the smallest, flat, and hollow in the centre, while those 

 near the aj)ex are more angularly raised, and all of a pale- 

 yellow colour. 



A majestic tree, growing from sixty to eighty feet high, 

 regularly furnished with branches to the ground, and mostly 

 growing intermixed with other kinds in the extensive forests 

 of Spain and France. 



It is found occupying the highest range of the extensive 

 forests in the South of Spain, and in a corresponding situation 

 in the vast forest region on the River Gabriel, in Upper Aragon, 

 and on the Pyrenees, where it is called " Pin Nazaron." It is 

 also found near Montpelier and the coast of the Mediterranean, 

 in elevated positions, and attaining a great size, but not very 

 plentiful. 



This kind is easily distinguished by the bright orange 

 coloured bark of the shoots. 



No. 23. PiNUS RESINOSA, Solander, the Resinous or Red 

 American Pine. 



Syn. Pinus rubra, Mwhaux. 



„ Canadensis bifoha, Duhamel. 



Leaves in twos, five or six inches long, straight, stifl', yel- 

 lowish-green, thickly set on the shoots, compressed, and col- 

 lected in bunches at the extremities of the branches. Sheaths 

 nearly one inch long, white on the young leaves, but shorter, 

 jagged, and darker with age on the older ones. Branches in 

 whorls, rather naked, straight, open, and reddish-brown, with 

 the larger ones on the trunk more distant than those of the Cor- 

 sican Pine (P. Laricio). Buds long, pointed, and very resinous. 

 Cones pale reddish-brown, shining, hard, ovate- conical, rounded 

 at the base, two inches long, one inch and a quarter broad, and 

 with very short foot-stalks. Scales rhomboid, largest in the 

 middle of the cone, slightly elevated or pyramidal, with a 

 transverse ridge, terminated by a bluut scar, unarmed in the 

 centre, and half an inch wide, but much smaller towards the 



