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PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Habitat in toto Alpium jugo, in Carpathis, in jugo Uralenfi, per omnum Siberiam borealem et 
alpinam frequens, alt. 4000 to 6500. 
Fig. 1. 
Fig. 3- 
Two inner sides. 
Fig. 4- 
Back. 
A handfome tree, of large fize; moft pleafmg to the eye from its rich dark-green foliage. Branches 
tortuous; foliage irregular; bark grifeous, fcabrous, and hoary. Leaves from 2 to 3 inches long, ufually 
five, fometimes four or fix, in the fheath [fig. 1], fcarcely half a line 
in breadth, very dark green, ftiff, triangular, with a fharply promi¬ 
nent keel, convex on the back, ferrulated on the edge and keel fo as 
to feel rough when drawn forwards through the fingers [fig. 2], ren¬ 
dered filvery on each fide of the keel by from three to five irre¬ 
gular rows of ftomata [figs. 3 and 4], the back without ftomata ; 
the ftomata fmall and not very clofe together; the bafe of the 
fheath cortical, hard, fcarcely two lines in length; the flieath itfelf 
is two lines in length, compofed of feveral linear, fpathulate, obtufe, 
membranaceous, dry, brown fcales, at firfb combined into a kind 
of imbricated fheath, foon falling loofely open and dropping off. 
Fig. 5 fhews the bafe of the leaves and their infertion. Male cat¬ 
kins [figs. 6 and 7] fhort, brownifh violet-red, fubterminal, cluftered 
together, 5 to 8 lines long, oblong-cylindrical, very obtufe, provided with a fort of calyx compofed of 
oblong, obtufe, Ihining brown bradls at the bafe. Anthers bilocular, fulphur yellow, with the margins 
and connexion of the loculi red, the latter produced into a fhort reniform emarginate fharply crenu- 
lated creft, of the fame colour [figs. 8 and 9]. The pollen is fo abundant, that when the tree is in 
Fig. 2. 
Fig. 5' 
Fig. 6. Fig. 14. 
flower, the ground under the tree feems to be covered with yellow duft. The young cones are at firft 
terminal, concealed among the leaves, ovate, oblong, violaceous or greenifh, often hoary or glaucous ; 
afterwards when full-grown they become axillary, in confequence of the fubfequent growth of the furround¬ 
ing branchlets : they are feffile, erect, oval, obtufe, generally from two to three inches long, rarely aifum- 
ing a fomewhat cylindrical form. Scales [figs. 10 and 11] with the apophyfis fomewhat convex, rather 
fmooth and adpreffed, fometimes longitudinally rugofe, with the margins narrowly reflexed when matured, 
terminating in a broad obtufe umbo; the bafe broad, wedge-fhaped, deeply excavated on the inner fide 
for 
