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base, and more elevated. Seeds small, with tlie wings three- 

 quarters of an inch long. 



A large tree, growing seventy or eighty feet high, and two 

 feet in diameter, in dry, sandy soil, with the branches in very 

 distant whorls like those of the Corsican Pine. 



It is found occupying small tracts near the Lake of St. John, 

 in Canada, and not extending farther south than WUksborou^, 

 in Pennsylvania ; it is very scarce in all the country south of 

 the Eiver Hudson, but is abundant in Nova Scotia, on dry, 

 sandy soil, and along the banks of the Genessee, in the State 

 of New York. 



Timber fine-grained, red, full of resin, and highly esteemed 

 in Canada for its strength and durability. 



No. 24. PlNUS SYLVESTEIS,* L., the Scotch Fir. 

 Syn. Pinus sylvestris vulgaris, Glusius. 



Genevensis, Bauhin. 

 „ Eigensis, Fischer. 

 „ Haguenensis, Loudon. 

 „ uncinata, Don. 

 „ scariosa, Loddiges. 

 „ squamosa, Bosc. 

 „ Escarena, Pinetum Wohurnense. 

 Leaves in pairs, rigid, from one inch and a half to two inches 

 and a half in length, "somewhat waved and twisted; slightly 

 concave on the upper, and convex on the under surface, of a 

 light bluish-green or grayish colour; finely serrated on the 

 edges. Sheaths jagged and slightly ringed. Cones from two to 

 three inches long, and from one to one inch and a quarter broad 

 at. the base. Scales from one to one inch and a quarter long, 

 terminating in an irregular four-sided, projecting point, often 

 recurved. Seeds with the wing from one to one inch and a 

 quarter long, Seed-leaves from five to seven in number. 

 A tail tree, from 60 to 100 feet high, found in various parts 

 * The Pinus sylvestris of the ancient Roman naturalists is our Pinaster, 

 our Pinus sylvestris being their Pityida. By simply Pinus they always 

 intended Pinus Pinea, or the Stone Pine. 

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