970 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
ance, with a blunt point. Seeds extremely small. A low, scrubby, strag 
gling tree. Hudson’s Bay, and farther north than any other American 
pine, where it grows among barren rocks. Height, in America, 5 ft. to 8 ft. ; 
at Dropmore and White Knights, 15 ft. to 30ft. Introduced in 1735. 
Flowers yellowish; May. Cones ripe in the November of the second year. 
The catkins of both sexes are expanded in May, before those of P. syl- 
véstris; but, as in that species, the cones do not attain their full size and 
maturity till the November of the second year, and do not open to shed their 
1798. P. Banksidna. 
seeds till the spring of the third year. The cones are commonly in pairs, of 
a grey or ash colour (whence the American name of grey pine); they are 
above 2 in. long, and have the peculiarity of aiways pointing in the same di- 
rection as the branches. They are remarkable for curving to one side, which 
gives them the appearance of small horns. They are extremely hard, and 
often remain on the trees several years. Plants are raised from imported 
seeds, when these can be procured; but the species may be inarched, or 
grafted in the herbaceous manner, on P. sylvéstris. 
£ 12. P. nops Ait. The Jersey, or poor, Pine. 
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 1., 3. p. 367., ed. 2., 5. p.316. ; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. p. 129. ; 
Pursh Sept., 2. p. 641. 
Synonymes. P. virginiana Du Roi Harbk. ed. Pott. 2. p. 47.; Pin chetif, Fr. 
ngravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2.,1. t.12.; N. Du Ham., t.69. f.1.; Michx. N. Amer. Syl. 3. t. 137.5 
our Jig. 1801. to our usual scale, and figs. 1800. and 1802. of the natural size, all from Dropmore 
specimens, 
Spee. Char., §c. Leaves in pairs. Cones drooping oblong-conical, longer 
than the leaves. The scales awl-shaped, with prominent prickles. Crest 
of the anthers short, broad, jagged. Bud (fig. 1800.) from 2 in. to 3 in. long, 
and 2 in. broad ; cylindrical, blunt at the point, resinous, brown, and 
surrounded by three small buds. Cone (fig. 1802.) from 22 in. to 
33 in. long, and from lin. to 13 in. broad. Some of those at Drop- 
more are of the last dimensions. Scales of a hard woody texture, SH 
of a yellowish brown colour, with a sharp woody prickle projecting ‘Y# 
from each, which is generally straight. Leaves from 12 in, to 22 in. 
long. Sheaths with 3 or 4 rings. Seeds small, cotyledons 6 to 8. 
Young shoots covered with a fine purplish glaucous bloom. A 
tortuous-branched low tree, having, at a distance, the general appear- 
ance of P, Banksidna ; but differing from that species in having many 
of the more slender branches pendulous, and the wood of the shoots 
of the current year conspicuously glaucous and tinged with violet. 
New Jersey to Carolina, on dry barren soils. Height, in America, 30 ft. to 
40 ft.; at Dropmore and Pain’s Hill, 40 ft. to 50 ft. Introduced in 1739. 
