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PINES. 
(Le Pin. Fr.) 
Natural Order , Conifers. (Jussieu.) Linncean Classifica- 
tion, Monoecia Monandria .* 6 
PINUS.t (Linn.) 
Staminate flowers in clustered cylindric aments. Anther scales crested 
at the apex, each bearing two masses of pollen in cells, and opening 
lengthways. Fertile flowers in ovoid aments, the scales imbricated, 
2-flowered, becoming woody, embracing the seed, and forming a cone 
or strobile. The nut usually winged at the summit. 
Trees of various dimensions, natives of Europe, Asia and America, 
some of them among the largest of known vegetables, bearing leaves 
which are evergreen, dry, and needle-like or acerose, at first single, but 
afterwards produced from 2 to 5 in a common sphacelous or membrana- 
ceous scaly sheath. The aments or flowers are lateral and terminal, con- 
glomerate ,* the fertile ones persistent and becoming woody cones. 
* It was referred to the order Monadelpiiia by Linnseus, but is, in 
fact, strictly Monandrous. 
t A name derived from the Celtic, pin or pen , a rock or mountain, in 
allusion to the usual place of their growth. 
