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PART III.

in medicine; and a miraculous spring is supposed to have flowed from itsroot, which cured all diseases, till an avaricious priest put it under lock andkey, not allowing any one to taste the water, unless they first gave amplealms, when, as a punishment for his cupidity, the stream dried up. (Ibid.,p. 152.) The Isle of Palma has also a pino santo which grows about 2727 ft.above the level of the sea. This tree, which is said to have been in existenceat the time of the conquest of the Canaries (1483), shows no signs of age. Asmall statue of the Virgin is placed among its branches, beside which is sus-pended a kind of lamp ; and every evening the woodcutters of the forest lightthis lamp, which is seen to a great distance glimmering through the trees.{Ibid., p. 154.) The timber of P. canariensis is said to be very resinous,not liable to be attacked by insects, and, in favourable situations, to endurefor centuries. The inhabitants of the Canaries use the wood for torches. Thespecies may be propagated by making cuttings of the young shoots whichproceed from the dormant buds (see Description above, and p. 2128.), or bygrafting on P. sylvestris or P. Pinaster.

2 26. P. sine'nsis Lamb. The Chinese Pine.

Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed., 2. 1. t.29.

Engravings Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1.1. 29. ; and our fig. 2168., to our usual scale, from a specimen of atree at Redleaf; and figs. 2169. and 2170., of the natural size, the cone and leaves from Lambert,and the bud from Redleaf.

Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in threes, sometimes in twos, very slender. Malecatkins short. Cones ovate ; scales truncate at the apex, with-out any point. {Lamb., and obs.) A large tree. Branchestubercled. Leaves squarrose, with stipular scales; twin, or inthrees, slender, spreading, semi cylindrical, mucronated, serrulated;grass green, 5 in. long: sheaths cylindrical, f in. long. Malecatkins numerous, somewhat verdcillate, | in. long. Cones withvery short footstalks, ovate, brownish, 2 in. long ; scales thick,woody, tetragonal at the apex, flattened, truncate, mutic. {Lamb.)Buds, in the Redleaf specimen (see Jig. 2167.), from in. to-Af in. in length, and about the same breadth; bluntly pointed,with numerous fine scales, of a brownish colour, and wholly2167 without resin. Leaves from 5 in. to 5Jin. in length; three-sided,slender, straight, and about thesame colour as those of P. Pi-nea; sheaths from fin. to fin.

long; brownish, slightly membranaceous, and rigid. A native of China-There is a tree at Redleaf, raised by William Wells, Esq., from seeds

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