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PINUS SYLVESTRIS. 
Scotch Fir.* 
Class MoNCECiA. — Order Monadelphia. 
Nat. Old. CoNiFERiE, Linn. Juss. 
Gen. Char. Male. 7^/ou;er« disposed in branches. Calyx a 
4-leayed periauthum, caducous. Leaflets ohlong. CorollaO. 
Filaments numerous, united at their base. Anthers double, 
nearly round. 
Female. Flowers disposed in a globe, on the 
same plant. Calyx a common cone, nearly oval, unequal. 
Scales bifloral, oblong, wider at the apex, obtuse, gibbous, 
imbricated. Corolla 0. Germen small. Style awl-shaped. 
Stigma simple. 
Spec. Char. Leaves rigid, in pairs. Young Cones stalked, 
recurved. Anthers with a very small crest. 
The Pines are rather a numerous family of trees, though we 
believe their number and species have not yet been fully ascertained ; 
they are for the most part natives of cold and lofty regions, growing 
upon rocky mountains, and towering above them, as if to bid 
defiance to the stormy elements, and to shew by their perpetual 
verdure, that nature can overcome both soil and cHmate. The 
general appearance of these trees is striking and peculiar, and must 
be known to most of our readers, as one or more of the species is 
to be found in almost every shrubbery and plantation, gladdening 
the eye with their verdant hue, when almost every othfer tree has 
yielded to the desolating hand of winter. The Pinus Sylvestris, or 
Scotch fir, is the only native species of this family ; it is found 
growing on the stony mountains of Scotland, in Sweden, and in the 
North of Europe generally, and constituting, with the Pinus Abies, 
the staple commodity of export, and chief wealth of Norway, where 
Fig. a. A male catkin, b, A fen^ale catkin, c. The seed with its wing. 
