310 PINUS, OR 



No. 76. PiNUS LOPHOSPEEMA, LmdUy, the Cresfc-seeded Pine, 

 SjTi. Pinus Torreyana, Parry. 



Leaves in fives, from eight to ten inches long, stout, stiff, and 

 pungent at the points, with the sides rough, three-edged, and 

 not unlike those of Pinus Coulteri. Sheaths on tlie young 

 leaves upwards of an inch long, and smooth ; while those on 

 the old ones are little more than half that length, are torn at 

 the ends, and much wrinkled along the surface. Shoots very 

 stout, and covered, when yoiing, with a white powder or glau- 

 cous bloom. Cones from four and a half to five and a half 

 inches long, and rather more than three inches in diameter, 

 somewhat globular or obtusely egg-shaped, tapering most to- 

 wards the apex, and flattened at the base, with a hard, glossy 

 surface, and very much resembling those of the Stone Pine 

 (Pinus Pinea), but somewhat larger. Scales very thick at the 

 points, rather large, elevated, glossy, hard, and distinctly two- 

 edged, or irregularly four-sided; those nearest the base of the 

 cone being very much the smallest, more recurved, and fur- 

 nished with a short, stout point, which on the larger scales is 

 obsolete. Seeds very large, and, like those of Pinus Sabiniaiia, 

 furnished with a thick crest, of a dark colour, from which pro- 

 ceeds a very narrow, short, oblique, membranaceous wing, 

 which, along with the crest, separates from the seed in the 

 form of a horse's coUar. 



A magnificent tree, somewhat resembling Pinus Sabiniana, 

 with very glaucous, stout shoots, found in Lower California by 

 Mr. "William Lobb, who transmitted seeds of it to Mr. Hugh 

 Low, of the Clapton Nursery, in the early part of the year 

 18G0. 



It is more or less tender in England. 



