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season when the perfect insect is eclosecl. It also appears to 

 be widely distributed, having been found so universally, from 

 whatever locality the seed may have been taken ; so that, un- 

 less some fortunate season occurs unfavourable to the existence 

 of this pest, it appears probable that these magnificent and 

 beautiful species are likely to continue scarce and valuable in 

 this country, the small quantity of good seed likely to be pro- 

 cured by a collector not being sufficient to repay the labour 

 and expense of procuring it. 



But the discussion of such points relating to trees already 

 established in this country is foreign to our present purpose, 

 which is simply to describe one or two new species which were 

 found associated with these pines. 



The first of these is a species of Pinus, which we have 

 named Beardsleyi, in honour of Mr Beardsley. 



Pinus BeardsleyL Plate VI. 



P. foliis ternis, longis; vaginis curtis, corrugatis ; strobilis, 

 oblongis equilateri-ovatifr, aggregatis ; squamis apice quad- 

 rangulis, umbilico mediocri ; elevato mucronatis ; mucrone 

 tenui versus basim deflexo ; spermodermate maculato. 



Habitat in California in montibus interioribus circa lat. 

 41° Bor. ; altitudine 5000-6000 ped. 



Leaves in threes, about six inches long, firm, numerous, 

 roughened by projecting points along the midrib and, edges, 

 the points directed to the tip of the leaf. Sheath short, about 

 an eighth of an inch in length, coarse and corrugated. Cones 

 growing on a short thick peduncle, aggregated round the 

 branch, generally from 3 to 5 ; 3 inches long, and 1J across, 

 or nearly 5 in circumference at the broadest part, of a some- 

 what prolonged elliptical shape ; and the difference in the 

 appearance of the scales on the outer and inner side of the 

 cone is trifling. Scales an inch long, with a not very pro- 

 minent apophysis. The medial line, crossing the exposed part 

 of the scale, generally runs nearly across the middle. A thin 

 small sharp hooked prickle, nearly a line in length, points 

 towards the base of the cone. Seeds winged with a speckled 



