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ARBORETUM AND FRUTJCRTUM. 



PAIIT III. 



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3£ :>. P. Bauksia^na Lamb. Banks's, or the Labrador, Pine. 



p. 234. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., cd. 2., I. t. 3. ; Smith in Rees's Cyclo., No. 4. ; N. Du Ham. 



Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 2. p. f>42. ; Lodd. Cat., 1836 j Bon Jard., cd. 1837, p. 974. 

 Sjfnonymes, P. sylvestris divaricata Ait. Hort. Keiu., 3. p 366. ; P. rupestris Michx. N. Amer. Svl.,3. 



p. 118, ; P. hudsonica Lam. Encyc, 5. p. 339. ; Scrub Pine, Grey Pine, Hudson's Bay Pino ; 



Ypres, Canada. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1. 3. ; N. Du Ham., 5. t. 67. f. 3. ; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. 1. 136. ; 



our fig. 2064., to our usual scale of 1 in. to 2 ft. ; and fig. 2065., of the natural size ; all from 



Dropmore specimens. 



Spec. Char., §c. Leaves in pairs, divaricated, oblique. Cones 

 recurved, twisted. Crest of the anthers dilated. (Smith.) Bud 

 J in. long, and i-in. broad; cylindrical, blunt at the point, whitish, 

 and covered with resin in large particles ; central bud surrounded 

 by from three to five smaller buds, as shown in Jig. 2064. Leaves 

 (sccfig. 2065.) from 1 in. to 1£ in. in length, including the sheath, 

 which is short, and has three or four rings. Cones from li in. 

 to 2 in. long. Leaves and cones retained on the tree three or 

 four years. Scales terminating in a roundish protuberance, with 

 a blunt point. Seeds extremely small. 



Description. A low, scrubby, straggling tree, not rising higher in its native 

 country, where it grows among barren rocks, than from 5 ft. to 8 ft. ; but in 



British collections, in good 

 soil, attaining more than three 

 times that height. Occasion- 

 ally, among the rocks of La- 

 brador, Michaux observes, this 

 pine produces cones, and even 

 exhibits the appearance of de- 

 crepid old age, at the height of 

 3 ft. ; and in no part of North 

 America did he find it more 

 than 10 ft. high. Dr. Richard- 

 son, however, in Franklin's 

 Narrative of a Journey to the 

 Shores of the Polar Seas in 1819 

 and 1822, describes P. Bank- 

 , spreading, flexible branches, generally 

 hed with whorled curved cones, of many years' growth. It attains," he 

 adds, "the height of 40ft. and upwards in favourable situations; but the 



m handsome tree, with long, e 



in the ether 



diameter of its trunk is greater, in proportion to its height, tl an 



ountry. In its native situations, it exudes much less resin 



than /hi- alba." (App. No. 7. p. 752.) Douglas found it on the higher 



I olumbia and in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains, and his 



t haves than are produced by the trees in Britain. 



