366 PINUS PINASTER. 



limbs die off, and the trunk becomes covered with 

 a purplish bark, marked with numerous deep fis- 

 sures, and, in exposed situations, often invested 



CONES OF PINASTER. 



with the grey lichen alluded to above. The bark 

 itself is of a soft pithy texture and readily splits 

 into plates about two inches wide, and from four 



