PINETUM DANICUM. 



885 



Habitat. — It is a native of the mountains of Angangueo and 

 Orizaba, and other parts of Mexico. 

 Not yet proved hardy in Denmark. 



P. pungens, Michx. Hist. Arb. Am. i. 61, t. 5, and IS". Amer. 

 Sylv. ed. 3, iii. 105, t. 140 ; Nouv. Duham. v. 236, t. 67, f. 4 ; 

 Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, v. 314; Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 643; 

 Poir. Suppl. iv. 417 ; Elliott, Sk. ii. 635 ; Spreng. Syst. ii. 886 ; 

 Eaton, Manual, ed. 6, 265 ; Lamb. Pin. ed. 1, iii. 34, t. 17 ; Loud. 

 Arbor, iv. 2197, f. 2077-80 ; Forb. Pinet. Wob. 57, t. 21 ; Eaton 

 and Wright, Bot. 359 ; Ant. Conif. 18, t. 5, f. 4 ; Lindl. in Penn. Cycl. 

 xvii. 171 ; Nutt. Sylv. iii. 125, and ed. 2, ii. 184 ; Spach, Hist. Yeg. 

 Phan. xi. 387 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 166 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 27 ; Lindl. 

 and Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 217 ; Carr. Tr. Gen. Conif. 359, 

 anded. 2, 470 ; Darby, Bot. S. States, 515 ; Gord. Pinet. 181, anded. 2, 

 254 ; Cooper in Smithsonian Pep. 1858, 257 ; Chapman, Fl. S. States, 

 432 ; Curtis in Pep. Geolog. Surv. IsT. Carolina, 1860, iii. 20 ; 

 Wood, CI. Book, 660, and Bot. and Fl. 313 ; Henk. and Hochst. 

 Nadelh. 21 ; Nelson, Pinac. 127 ; Gray, Man. N.U. States, ed. 5, 

 469 ; Hoopes, Evergreens, 98 ; Pari, in DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 379 ; 

 Koch, Dendr. ii. 2, 304 ; Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 30 ; Meelian in 

 Rep. Perm. Fruit Grov/ers' Soc. 1877, and t. ; Engelm. in Trans. 

 St. Louis Acad. iv. 183 ; Veitch, Man. Conif. 158 ; Beissn. Nadelh. 

 214. 



Habitat. — Alleghany Mountains, Pennsylvania to Tennessee. 



A tree 30-60 feet in height, with a trunk 2-3^ feet in diameter ; 

 most common, and reaching its greatest development, upon the high 

 mountains of East Tennessee ; here often the prevailing species, and 

 forming extensive forests (C. S. Sargent). 



A specimen of P. pungens, planted in 1878, now measures 12 feet 

 6 inches in height, with a girth of 8 inches. 



It has produced cones in Denmark. 



P. pyrenaiea, Lapeyr. Arb. PI. Pyren. 146, and Suppl. 63 ; 

 Loud. Arbor. Brit. iv. 2209, f. 2090-93, and Encycl. of Trees, 961, 

 f. 1779-80 ; Ant. Conif. 3, t. 3, f. 4 ; Lindl. and Gord. Journ. Hort. 

 Soc. V. 219; Endl. Syn. Conif. 180; Knight, Syn. Conif. 27; David, 

 Rev. Hort. 1852, 416; Carr. Tr. Gen. des Conif. 391; Gord. Pinet. 

 382 ; Veitch, Man. Conif. 156 ; Beissn. Nadelh. 225. Pinaster 

 hispanicus, Clus. Hist. pi. 33. P. halepensis major, Ann. Soc. Roy. 

 d'Hort. Par. 1838, 186. Pinaster hispanica, Roxas di San Clemente. 

 P. Brutia, Ten. Syn. 47, and Fl. Nap. v. 266, t. 200. P. Loise- 

 lenriana, Carr. Conif. ed. 2, 500. P. Pallasi, Paol. H. Bot. Parol. 

 1841, 3. P. Paroliniana, Webb. Herb. P. Parolini, Wis. Illust. 

 delle Piante Nuov. Mem. iii. 7, t. 1. P. hisjxinica, Cook, Sketches 

 in Spain, ii. 337. P. penicillus, Lapeyr. Hist. PI. Pyren. 63. 



Habitat. — The Pyrenees, chiefly on the Spanish side ; also in many 

 places on the sierras stretching across the peninsula ; in the South of 



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