962 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
t. 29.; P. maritima N. Du Ham. 5. p 240.; P.s¥rtica Thore Prom. sur les Ctes de Gascogne, 
p. 161.; P. Massonid@na Lamb. 2 ed. 118.; Pin de Bordeaux, Pin des Landes ; Pinastro, Ital. 
Engraving. Du Ham. Arb., No. 4. t. 26.5 Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 9.5 N. Du Ham., 5, t. 72, and 
72. bis f..1.; the plates of this tree in Arb. Brit., Ist. edit. vol. viii.; our fig. 1786., to our usual 
scale ; figs. 1781. and 1782., of the natural size, from Dropmore and Pain’s Hill specimens. 
Spec. Char, &c. Leaves in pairs, rigid, very long. Cones conical, placed in 
whorls of 3, 4, or even as many as 8, together ; rather solitary, much shorter 
than the leaves; the 
backs of the scales 
forming each a rhom- 
boidal pyramid, with 
two lateral angles, 
from which proceed 
ribs, terminating at 
the summit of the 
pyramid in a smaller 
pyramid, which has 
a hard point, more 
or less sharp, and of 
a grey colour. Crest 
of the anthers round- 
ed. Bud (fig 1781.) | 
t 
1781. P. Pindster. 
from & in. to 3 in. 
long; and from 3 in, 
to 4 in. broad ; 
straight-sided, cylin- 
drical, with the scales 
turned back ; white 
and woolly, but never 
resinous ;_ surround- 
ing buds few and 
small. Leaves (see 
Jig. 1782.) from 6 or 
8 inches to 1 ft. in 
length, slightly ser- 
rated on the mar- 
gins; sheaths from 
zn. to $in. in length; 
imbricated, scarcely rigid ; pale green or whitish at first, and becoming 
at last black. Cones from 4 in. to 6 in. in length, and from 1% in. 
to 2} in. wide at the broadest part; light brown, and shining; scales 
from Lin. to 14 in. in length, and from 4 in. to 3in. in breadth at the widest 
part ; terminating in a regular pyramid ; rhomboidal at the base. The sum- 
mit consisting of a smaller rhomboidal pyramid, of an ash-grey colour, very 
1782. P. Pindster. 
