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respect to elevation, though it will endure the sea breeze, it will not thrive, in 
England, much above the level of the sea. 
28. P. Pi’'nea DL. The Stone Pine. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1419.; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1,, 3. p. 368. 7 
Synonymes, P. sativa Bauk. Pin. p.491,; P. doméstica Matth. Comm. 87.; Pin Pignon, Pin bon, 
Pin cultivé, Pin Pinier, Fr. ; Geneissbere Fichte, Ger.; Pino da Pinocchi, Ital. 
Engravings. Blackw., t. 189.; Du Ham. Arb., 2. t. 27.; Tabern. Ic., 936.; Lamb. Pin., 1. t. 10, 
ll.; N. Du Ham., 5. t.72. f.3.; Poit. et Turp., t.125.; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. t. 135.: the 
plate of this tree in Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. viii. ; our fig. 1788., to our usual scale ; figs. 1787. to 
1789,, of the natural size, from Dropmore and White Knights. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves in pairs. Cones ovate, obtuse, nearly as long as the 
leaves, their scales with recurved deciduous points. Seed bony, with very 
short wings. Crest of the anthers jagged. (Smith.) The ee 
buds (see jig. 1787.) resemble those of Pinaster, but 
are smaller in all their dimensions, much less pointed, 4 
more woolly, and wholly without resin. The surround- 
ing buds are nearly as large as the central one. The 
leaves are from 5in. to7in., and sometimes 8in., long, 
serrated ; sheaths, at first, 3 in. long, afterwards becoming 
lacerated, shortened to half their length, and ringed with 
four or five rings. Cone from 5 in. to 6 in. in length; and 
from 32 in. to 4in. in breadth ; scales large and woody, from 
2 in. to 23in. in length, and from 1 in. to 12 in. in breadth, 
with the thickened part pyramidal, rhomboidal, and some- 
times hexagonal in the plan, resembling those of P. Pinaster, 
but having four ribs from the four angles, instead of two 
from the lateral angles. The ribs meet in a small rhomboidal pyramid, of a 
grey colour, which terminates in a broad blunt prickie. The colour of the 
entire cone is much lighter than that of P. Pinaster, and is of a pale wains- 
cot colour. Seeds, without the wing, 3in. long, and from Zin. to 2in. 
broad ; with the wing, 1 in. long. Cotyledons 9 to 11. A low or middle- 
sized tree. Greece, and cultivated in Italy. Height, in Greece, 50 ft. to 60 ft.; 
in England, 15 ft. to 20ft., rarely 30ft. Introduced in 1548. It flowers, 
in the climate of London, in the latter end of May or the beginning of June, 
and ripens its cones in the autumn of the second year. 
1787. P. Pines. 
Varieties. 
2 ?P. P. 2 fragilis N. Du Ham. v. p. 
242.— The only variety mentioned 
by Continental authors ; and it 
only differs from the species in 
having a tender shell to the seed. 
¢ P. P. 3 crética Hort. — The leaves 
seem to be rather finer than those 
of the species. 
In the South of Europe, this species is a 
large tree, with a spreading head, forming a 
kind of parasol, and a trunk 30 or 40 feet 
high, clear of branches; but in England it 
generally forms a bush rarely exceeding 
15 ft. in height. The soil for the stone 
pine should be deep, sandy, and dry, and 
the situation sheltered, though the plants 
should not be crowded. The seeds are 
procured from foreign cones, which are 
generally purchased in the autumn, or at 
the beginning of winter, and the seeds 
taken out of them by throwing them into 1788. P. Pinea. 
hot water, and treating them like those of pinaster. They are frequently 
sown in pots in the course of the winter, and preserved in a frame, and kept 
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