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exactly the same; but the larger cone has the’smaller seeds. To us it ap- 
pears that they are only varieties of one species; but, if they are so, they are 
as well worth keeping distinct as any species whatever. They may, indeed, 
be described as of surpassing beauty ; and, what adds greatly to their value, 
they appear to be quite hardy. 
2 95. P. austrais Michx. The southern Pine. 
Identification. Michx. Arb., 1. p. 62.; N. Amer. Syl., 3. p. 133.; Penny Cyc., vol. 18. 
Synonymes. P. paliistris Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p.499., Pursh Sept. 2. p. 644., Lamb. Pin. ed. 2. 1. t. 24, 
25.3; P. americana palistris, &c., Hort. Angl. p. 88., Du Ham. Arb. 2. p. 126.; P. serétina Hort., 
see Bon. Jard. ed. 1837, p. 976. In America, Long-leaved Pine, Yellow Pine, Pitch Pine, and 
Broom Pine, in the southern states ; Southern Pine and Red Pine, in the northern states ; and 
Yellow Pine and Pitch Pine, in the middle states. In England and the West Indies, by the timber 
merchants, Georgia Pitch Pine. 
Engravings. Michx. Arb., 1. t.6.; N. Amer. Syl., 3. t. 141.; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 24. 25.; Pin. 
Wob., t. 22. ; our fig. 1845. to our usual scale, from Abbott; and figs. 1842. to 1844. of the natural 
size, from Michaux and from 
Dropmore specimens. 
Spec. Char., §c. . Leaves 
in threes, very long. 
Male catkins long, cy- 
lindrical, of a tawny 
blue, divergent. Cones 
very long, tessellated 
with tumid tubercles, 
terminated by very 
small mucros. (Michz.) 
Buds, in the Drop- 
more specimen (see 
Jig. 1842.), rather 
small in proportion to 
the termination of the 
shoot, and buried in 
1842, P. australis. 
leaves. When the 
leaves are removed, 
the bud is found to be 
from 3 to in. long, 
and from 3, in. to 
<$,in. broad, with nu- 
merous, far-projecting, 
white, fringed scales ; 
general form conical, 
and wholly without 
resin. Leaves (see fig. 
1843.) from 8in. to 9 in. 
in length. Sheath from 
11 in. to 2 in. long, 
white, membranaceous, 
and lacerated. The 
cones, in Michaux’s 1843. P. australis, 
EEE ERE. 
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