CHAP. CXIII. 



CON I FERiE. PINI/S. 



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Eaton Hall, 6 years planted, it is 6 ft. 6 in. high 

 Nerridres, 10 years planted, it is 18 ft. high. 



In France, at Nantes, in the nursery of 



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Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 5s. each; and at 

 Bollwyller, 5 francs. 



§ x. Canar tenses. 



Sect. Char. Leaves long, slender. Cones shorter than the leaves, more or 

 less tubercled ; the tubercles terminating in blunt points, without spines or 

 hooks. 



i 25. P. canarie'nsis C. Smith. The Canary Pine. 



Identification. C. Smith in Buch Fl. Can., p. 32. and 34. ; Dec. PI. Rar. Jard. Gen., 1. p. 1. ; Lamb. 



Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 28. ; Lawson's Manual, p. 357. ; Bon Jard., 1837, p. 976. 

 Synonyme. ? P. adunca Bosc, according to Sprengel. 

 Engravings. Dec. PI. Rar. Jard. Gen., 1. 1. 1, 2. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1. 28. ; our fig. 2165., to our 



usual scale ; and figs. 2162. to 2164., of the natural size. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves in threes, very long and spreading, rough. Crest 

 of the anthers round, entire. Cones oblong, tuberculate. (Lamb. Pin.) 

 Buds, in the Dropmore specimen (see Jig. 2162.), from T 3 F in. to i in. long, 

 and from -5% in. to -^in. broad; dry and scaly, white, and without 

 resin. Leaves (see fig. 2164.) from 7 in. to 7^ in. long, and 

 slender ; sheaths from | in. to § in. long, whitish, membraneous, 

 torn at the margin, and brownish at the base. Cone, in Lambert's 

 figure, 5f in. long, and 2fin. broad; scale 2 in. long and l^in. 

 broad, terminating in an irregular pyramidal process, at the apex 

 of which is a blunt point, like that of P. Pinaster. Scales (see^g. 

 2163.) 2 in. long, and 1-^- in. broad. Seeds a in. long, and y\in. 

 broad ; flat, pointed at both extremities, with the wing If in. long, 

 and ^in. broad at the widest part: colour a whitish brown. Co- 

 tyledons, ? The tree throws out abundance of shoots and tufts 

 of leaves from the dormant buds in the trunk and larger branches ; 

 more especially at places where any branches have been cut off. 



Description. A tree, from 60 ft. to 70 ft. high. Branchlets squarrose, with 

 stipular, crowded, lanceolate, acuminate, threadlike, and ciliated, revolute 

 scales ; callous and rigid at the base. Leaves in threes, recurved and spread- 

 ing, generally pendulous, very long, slender, wavy, a little tortuous, com- 

 pressed ; callous and mucronate at the apex, bicanaliculate above, serrulated 

 on the margins and on the intermediate elevated angle, scabrous, convex 

 beneath, very smooth, shining, marked with dotted 

 parallel lines ; grass green ; 7 in. to 1 ft. in length ; 

 sheaths cylindrical, loose at the apex, torn, § in. long. 

 Male catkins many, clustered, verticillate, cylindrical, 

 obtuse, 1 in. long. Crest of the anthers roundish, 

 membranaceous, entire. Cones ovate-oblong, tuber- 

 cled, 4 in. to 6 in. long, 2 in. in diameter at the base; 

 scales thick, woody, dilated at the apex, depressed- 

 quadrangular, truncate. Seeds oblong, dark brown ; 

 wing membranaceous, striated, obliquely truncated, 

 brownish. (Lamb.) This species, P. longifolia, and 

 P. leiophylla bear a close general resemblance, and 

 are all rather tender ; but, when the leaves and buds 

 are examined closely, their specific difference becomes 

 obvious. Lambert states that this species differs 

 from P. longifolia chiefly in the much more depressed 

 and straight-pointed tubercles of its cones ; those 

 of P. longifolia being hooked. The largest speci- 

 men of this pine that we know of is at Dropmore, of which fig. 2166. is 

 a portrait, and where, after having been 14 years planted, it was, in 1837, 

 17 ft. high. It is protected during winter in the same manner as P. longifolia, 

 and P. leiophylla. " A plant in the Trinity College Botanic Garden, Dublin, 

 raised there about 1815, from seeds collected by the late Dr. Smith of 



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