CHAR. CXIII.

CONIFERA!. Pl'NUS.

2261

Eaton Hall, 6 years planted, it is 6 ft. 6 in. high. In France, at Nantes, in the nursery of M.Nerridres, 10 years planted, it is 18 ft. high.

Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 5s. each; and atBollwyller, 5 francs.

§ x. Canarienses.

Sect. Char. Leaves long, slender. Cones shorter than the leaves, more orless tubercled ; the tubercles termin&ting in blunt points, without spines orhooks.

1 25. P. canarie'nsis C. Smith. The Canary Pine.

Identification. C. Smith in Buch FI. Can., p. 32. and 34. ; Dec. PI. Rar. Jard. Gen., 1. p. 1. j Lamb.Pin., ed. 2., 1. t.28.; Lawson’s Manual, p. 357.; Bon Jard., 1837, p.976.

Synonyme. ? P. adunca liosc> according to Sprengel.

Engravings. Dec. PI. Rar. Jard. Gen., 1.1.1, 2 .; Lamb. Pin., ed.2., 1.1. 28.; our fig. 2165., to ourusual scale ; and^/igs. 2162. to 2164., of the natural size.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves in threes, very long and spreading, rough. Crestof the anthers round, entire. Cones oblong, tuberculate. (Lamb. Pin.)Buds, in the Dropmore specimen (see Jig. 2162.), from ^-in. to f in. long,and from -^-in. to Jg-in. broad; dry and scaly, white, and withoutresin. Leaves (see Jig. 2164.) from 7 in. to 7fin. long, andslender; sheaths from f in. to fin. long, whitish, membraneous,torn at the margin, and brownish at the base. Cone, in Lambert’sfigure, 5J in. long, and 2Jin. broad; scale 2 in. long and If in.broad, terminating in an irregular pyramidal process, at the apexof which is a blunt point, like that of P. Pinaster. Scales (see Jig.

2163.) 2 in. long, and If in. broad. Seeds fin. long, and f^-in.broad ; flat, pointed at both extremities, with the wing If in. long,and T ’ F in. broad at the widest part: colour a whitish brown. Co-tyledons, ? The tree throws out abundance of shoots and tuftsof leaves from the dormant buds in the trunk and larger branches ; sigsmore especially at places where any branches have been cut off.

Description. A tree, from 60 ft. to 70 ft. high. Branchlets squarrose, withstipular, crowded, lanceolate, acuminate, threadlike, and ciliated, revolutescales; callous and rigid at the base. Leaves in threes, recurved and spread-ing, generally pendulous, very long, slender, wavy, a little tortuous, com-pressed ; callous and mucronate at the apex, bicanaliculate above, serrulatedon the margins and on the intermediate elevated angle, scabrous, convexbeneath, very smooth, shining, marked with dottedparallel lines; grass green; 7 in. to 1 ft. in length ;sheaths cylindrical, loose at the apex, torn, fin. long.

Male catkins many, clustered, verticillate, cylindrical,obtuse, 1 in. long. Crest of the anthers roundish,membranaceous, entire. Cones ovate-oblong, tuber-cled, 4 in. to 6in. long, 2in. in diameter at the base;scales thick, woody, dilated at the apex, depressed-quadrangular, truncate. Seeds oblong, dark brown ;wing membranaceous, striated, obliquely truncated,brownish. (Lamb.) This species, P. longifolia, andP. leiophvlla bear a close general resemblance, andare all rather tender; but, when the leaves and budsare examined closely, their specific difference becomesobvious. Lambert states that this species differsfrom P. longifolia chiefly in the much more depressedand straight-pointed tubercles of its cones; thoseof P. longifolia being hooked. The largest speci-men of this pine that we know of is at Dropmore, of which Jig. 2166. isa portrait, and where, after having been 14 years planted, it was, in 1837,17 ft. high. It is protected during winter in the same manner as P. longifolia,and P. leiophylla. “ A plant in the Trinity College Botanic Garden, Dublin,raised there about 1815, from seeds collected by the late Dr. Smith of

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