394 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION, September 22, 1857 
PINUS WINCESTERIANA. 
Seeds of this very distinct Pine were 
first received by the Society from the 
Marquis of Winchester, along with a part 
of one of its long cones, in June, 1846. 
More recently complete specimens, with 
perfect cones, were obtained from Mr. 
Hartweg, who found it growing on the 
most elevated parts of the Cerro de San 
Juan> or Saddle Mountain, near Tepio, in 
Mexico, attaining a height of from sixty to 
eighty feet. 
Leaves in fives, from twelve to fourteen 
inches in length (on the wild specimens), 
rather stout, triquetrous, thickly set on the 
branches; glaucous green, and much re¬ 
sembling those of Pinus jWfolia, but 
broader and shorter than in that species; 
sheaths persistent, about one inch in length, 
smooth and entire, or nearly so; seed- 
leaves on the young plants mostly eight in 
number, and rather short; branches few, 
Spreading, irregular, and rather stout; 
buds imbricated, non-resinous, and large ; 
cones pendulous; sessile on very short 
footstalks, two or three together, but 
sometimes single, always much incurved, 
and tapering pretty regularly from the 
base to the point, from eight to ten inches 
in length, and three inches and a half 
broad at the base, with from twenty-six 
to thirty i-oavs of scales ; scales five-eighths 
of an inch broad, much elevated, parti¬ 
cularly those upon the middle of the cone 
on the upper side, where they become 
conical, and from three-eighths to a quarter 
of an inch high, while those on the under 
side and towards the extremities are much 
smaller, less elevated, and nearly all of a 
size; from amongst these exude large 
quantities of clear resin, particularly on 
the upper side near the base ; seeds rather 
small, a quarter of an inch in length and 
angular, with rather broad wings one inch 
in length. 
This Pine, so very distinct from any 
other hitherto described, particularly in its 
long incurved resinous cones, I have ven¬ 
tured to name after the Marquis of Win¬ 
chester, who first presented the seeds of 
this noble Pine to the Society, and to 
whom its first introduction into England 
is due.—( Horticultural Society’s Journal.) 
ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE WHITE RUST OF CABBAGES. 
By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 
An account was given in our seventeenth volume, page 
308, of the white rust with which Cabbages and other plants 
belonging to the same natural order are so frequently in¬ 
fested. It Avas stated that the species of fungus there de¬ 
scribed and figured is not the only one to the presence of 
Avliich the white leprous patches are due, which disfigure the 
leaves and other organs, and often seriously injure the plant. 
At the present time, in the district at least in which these 
observations are written, a large portion of the Cabbages, 
Avhich are in a very unhealthy state from the extreme mild¬ 
ness of the winter, are to a great extent frosted with Botrytis 
parasitica , which is fast destroying the leaves which it has 
attacked. There is, however, a third production, of much 
more rare occurrence, to which the white rust is sometimes 
due, on which I am here about to offer some remarks. It is 
iioav nearly thirty years since Dr. Greville figured, under the 
name of Cylindrosporium concentricum , a little white fungus 
sprinkled in patches over the upper and under surface of 
Cabbage leaves with somewhat of a concentric arrangement. 
It Avas evidently abundant at the time in the neighbourhood 
of Edinburgh, as it Avas observed by several botanists, but 
till its recent occurrence in Northamptonshire no one seems 
to have gathered it since its first discovery in Scotland. 
Specimens communicated to Sir W. J. Hooker were examined 
at the time of the publication of the volume of Fungi of th e 
English Flora, in 1836 ; but either they were in a very ba^ 
