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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM.

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Spec. Char., §c. Leaves short and thickly set. Cones top-shaped, verylarge, yellow. Scales with hard incurved prickles, thick, and broad atthe base. ( Michx .) Bud {fig. 2078.) from in. to f in long, and a in.j, broad ; cylindrical, blunt at the point; brown-wish, and covered with white resin; generallywithout small buds. Leaves ( fig. 2077.)

24 in. long, including the sheath, which has 4or 5 rings; the leaves are much broader,and rather shorter and lighter, than those ofP. (s.) pumilio, and tipped with a sharppoint. Cone 3) in. long, and about 2) in.

2078 broad. Scale woody, and furnished with astrong awl-shaped hook, exceeding a in. in length.

Seeds nearly as large as those of P. sylvestris, roughand black. Cotyledons from 6 to 8.

Description, fyc. A tree 40 ft. or 50 ft. high, withthe habit of P. sylvestris, but with a much morebranchy head; and readily distinguished from thatspecies by the young leaves not being glaucous,and by the leaves generally being more straightand rigid, slightly serrated at the margins, andwith shorter sheaths. The leaves are also of apaler green, both when young and full grown, so ■that the tree, when of large size, lias nothingof the gloomy appearance attributed to the Scotchpine. The cones are of a light yellowish browncolour, without footstalks ; and they are generallyin whorls of 3 or 4 together, pointing horizon-

2079