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short footstalks ; scales i in. long, andf in. broad. Seeds small; with thewings fin. long. The leaves arethickly set, and inclined towards theshoot, and much lighter and moreglaucous than in P. Laricio and itsvarieties, in which the foliage is of adarker green than it is in any otherspecies of Pinus. The shoots aremuch more naked, and the wholetree is more open and lighter; and thelarge and small branches are straighterand more distant than in P. Laricio;the plant is also of much less vi-gorous growth in British gardens.

The cones, in Michaux’s figure, andalso on the trees at White Knights,hear a good deal of resemblance tothose of P. Laricio,; which inducedLoiseleur Deslongchamps to considerMichaux’s plant as identical with thatspecies; hut, we think, if he had seenthe cones and trees at White Knights,he would have been of a differentopinion. We have sent him a speci-men. We acknowledge, however,that both the foliage and thecones,andeven the tree altogether, bear a dosegeneral resemblance to P. Laricio;

but the different form and colour of the scales, the lighter tinge of the fo-liage, and, above all, the much more delicate constitution of the tree, appearsufficient to justify us in retaining it as adistinct species. We are certain that thetrees at White Knights are the true P.rubra of Michaux; because they wereraised by Messrs. Loddiges from seedsof P. rubra, sent to them by Bartram ofPhiladelphia. We have also, since theabove was written, received cones andleaves from Mr. M‘ Nab, jun., which weregathered by him in Upper Canada, inAugust, 1834, from trees which had beenblown down, and which measured up-wards of 70 ft. in length.

Description. A tree, according to Mi-chaux, which, in America, rises from 70 ft.to 80 ft., with a trunk about 2 ft. in dia-meter, and retaining nearly the same bulkfor two thirds of its height. The bark isof a clearer red than that of any other pinein the United States; and by this the treemay always readily be distinguished. Theleaves are 5 in. or 6 in. long, of a dark green,two in a sheath, and collected in bunchesat the extremity of the branches, like thoseof the pinaster; instead of being distributedregularly over them, like those of P. inopsand P. sylvestris. The female catkins areof a dark blue, when they first appear;

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