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I saw), was of the following dimensions : its entire length wad 

 215 feet ; its circumference, 3 feet from the ground, was 57 feet 

 9 inches ; and, at 134 feet from the ground, 17 feet 5 inches. The 

 trunk is unusually straight, and destitute of branches for about two- 

 thirds of the height ; the bark is uncommonly smooth for such large 

 timber, of a light brown colour on the south, and bleached on the 

 north side. The branches are rather pendulous, and form an open 

 pyramidal head, with that appearance which is peculiar to the Abies 

 tribe. The leaves are between 4 and 5 inches long, and grow in fives, 

 with a short sheath like those of P. Strohus ; they are rigid, of a bright 

 green colour, but not glossy, and, from minute denticulations of the 

 margins, are scabrous to the touch. The cones are pendulous from 

 the extremities of the branches ; they are two years in acquiring their 

 full growth, are at first upright, and do not begin to droop, I believe, 

 till the second year ; when young they have a very taper figure ; when 

 ripe they are about 11 inches in circumference at the thickest part, and 

 vary from 12 to 16 inches in length. The scales are lax, rounded at 

 the apex, and perfectly destitute of spines. The seeds are large, eight 

 lines long and four broad, oval, and, like those of P. Pinea, their 

 kernels are sweet and very pleasant to the taste. The wing is mem- 

 branaceous, of a dolabriform figure and fuliginous colour, about twice 

 as long as the seed ; it has an innumerable quantity of minute sinuous 

 vessels, filled with a crimson substance, and forming a most beautiful 

 microscopic object. The embryo has twelve or thirteen cotyledons. The 

 whole tree produces an abundance of pure amber-coloured resin. The 

 timber is vvhite, soft, and light ; it abounds in turpentine reservoirs, 

 and its specific gravity has been ascertained, by a specimen brought 

 home by me, to be 0*464. The annual layers are very narrow. In 

 the above specimen there were fifty-six in the space of 4i inches 

 next the outside. The resin, which exudes from the trees when they 

 are partly burned, loses its usual flavour and acquires a sweet taste, in 

 which state it is used by the natives as sugar, being mixed with their 

 food. The seeds are eaten roasted, or are pounded into coarse cakes 

 for their winter store. The species to which this Pine is most nearly 

 allied is undoubtedly P. Strohus, from which, however, it is ex- 

 tremely difi'erent in station, habit, and parts of fructification. I 

 have named it in compliment to Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., a 

 vice-president of the Linnean Society, whose splendid labours in inves- 

 tigating the genus Pinus are too generally known and appreciated to 

 require any eulogium from me." 

 Seems to be hardy. 



P. Laricio, Poir. Diet. Encycl. v. 339 ; Loisel. Nouv. Duham. v. 

 t. 67, 71, f. 2 ; Lamb. Pinet. ed. 2, i. 9, t. 4 ; Pinet. Wob. 23 ; 

 Loud. Arbor. Brit. iv. 2206, f. 2081-84, and Encycl. of Trees, 957, 

 f . 1768-69 ; De Cand. Fl. Fr. iii. 274 ; Desf . Hist. Arbr. ii. 611 ; Ant. 

 Conif. 3, t. 2, f. 1, 2 ; De Chambr. Tr. Prat. Arbr, Resin. 245, pi. iii. 



