PINETUM BRITANNICUM. 
petiolate and twifted half round at the foot (talk, which is dilated at the bafe; upper fide without ftomata 
[%• 3l under fide with 10 or n clofely-placed filvery rows of ftomata arranged on each fide of the midrib 
[figs. 4 and 5]. Cones erefit, axillary, cylindrical, obtufely fufiform at both ends; 5 or 6 inches in length, 
and 12 inches in diameter, with eight rows of fcales in the long fpiral; fcales with the exterior margin 
rounded, broad, entire, deeply emarginate on each fide, tapering to a point below [fig. 6]; brafifs exferted, 
linear, with a long flat peduncle and a moderate quadrangular expanfion towards the apex, with a projecting 
reflexed tooth in the centre [figs. 8 a and 8 b magnified]. Seeds triquetral, pointed at the bafe, 3 or 4 lines 
in length, with a wing five or fix lines in length [fig. 7]. 
The male and female flowers have not fallen under our obfervation, nor are they yet defcribed. 
We have examined authentic fpecimens of Dr Heldreich’s Picea Panachaica , and can fee no Efficient 
difference between them and fpecimens of P. Cephalonica to warrant their being regarded as diftinfit fpecies. 
To enable our readers to judge for themfelves, we give figures of the leaves, fcales, and feeds of P. Pana¬ 
chaica, in the following woodcuts [figs. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 160, and 1 6b\ which they can contrail with 
Fig. 9. 
Fig. to. 
Fig. xi. 
Fig. 12. 
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Fig. 14. 
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Details of Picea Panachaica. 
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Fig. 16 a. 
F'ig, 16 b. 
thofe of the true P. Cephalonica given above. It will be feen that the form of the leaf is nearly the fame, 
although fomewhat narrower. The difpofition of the rows of ftomata, and their fize and number, are the 
fame; the point of the leaf is not bevelled off from behind, which is the cafe with P. Apollinis , but not 
with P. Cephalonica . The fears of the phyllulse are a little more irregular, but that is nothing. The 
cone and its fcales are perhaps a very little larger, but that is a variable point, dependent on climate, foil, 
&c. The brad (which is a part of great value as fhewing chara&er) is identical in both; and the feed is 
only a little larger, which is juft what might be expefiled from a larger cone, but its proportions are through¬ 
out the fame. Looking at all the characters taken together, the fomewhat narrower leaf is the only point on 
which we think that even a variety, much lefs a fpecies, could be founded. 
P. Cephalonica is clofely allied to P. Apollinis of Link, Endlicher, and Antoine ; but for the reafons 
which will be found in our defcnption of that tree, we confider them diftinfit. The fhape and confiftency 
of the leaf are different; the expanfion of the brafit is more fquare, and the wing of the feed dopes gradually 
from the feed inftead of expanding fuddenly. It is very probable that the two are confounded, not only in 
herbaria, but alfo in plantations and nurferies. 
Notwithftanding that P. Pinfapo has the brafits of its cones not exferted, there is little doubt that it 
is the reprefentative tree in Spain correfponding to P. Cephalonica in Greece. 
Defcription. —This tree reaches 60 feet in height, and in its native country, when not confined by 
others, affumes a very broad fhape, ftretching out its branches to a great diftance. It is efpecially 
beautiful when forming its young wood, the bark of which has a red hue in its early ftages. This, however, 
is the time of greateft danger , to the tree, as the young (hoots are extremely brittle, and a heavy gale of 
wind 
