CHAP. CXIII.

CONI'FERffi. PI'NUS.

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The species is readily known by the leavesbeing regularly distributed over the branches,instead of being collected in tufts alternatingwith naked spaces, as they appear to be inmost other pines. In America , the leaves areabout 1 in. long; but at Dropmore they aresometimes more than ljin. The catkins ofboth sexes are expanded in May, before thoseof P. sylvestris ; but, as in that species, thecones do not attain their full size and matu-rity till the November of the second year, anddo not open to shed their seeds till the springof the third year. The cones are commonlyin pairs, of a grey or ash colour (whence theAmerican name of grey pine); they areabove 2 in. long, and have the peculiarity ofalways pointing in the same direction as thebranches. They are remarkable for curving to one side, which gives them theappearance of small horns. They are extremely hard, and often remain onthe trees several years.

Geography, History, SfC. P. Banks iana, according to Michaux, is foundfarther northward than any other American pine. In Nova Scotia and thedistrict of Maine , where it is rare, it is called the scrub pine; and, in Canada ,the grey pine. According to Titus Smith {Mag. Nat. Hist., viii. p. 655.),it is called, in the neighbourhood of Halifax, the long-limbed Hudson’s Baypine. “ In the environs of Hudson’s Bay, and of the Great Mistassin Lakes,the trees, which compose the forests a few degrees farther south, disappearalmost entirely, in consequence of the severity of the climate and thesterility of the soil. The face of the country is almost everywhere brokenhy innumerable lakes, and covered with large rocks piled upon one an-other, and usually overgrownWh black lichens, which deep-on the gloomy aspect of thesedesolate and almost uninhabit-ed regions.” ( Michx .) Hereend there, in the intervals ofthe rocks, Michaux adds, areseen a few individuals of thescrub pine; but they seldomgrow higher than 3 ft. Dr.

Richardson, in Franklin’s Nar-r <jiive, states that P. Banks-nna was found exclusively oc-eupying dry sandy soils. It oc-onrred as far to the northwardns lat. 64°; but it was said tonttam higher latitudes on the®ndy banks of the MackenzieRiver. At what time, and by™om, this pine was intro-nced into Britain , is uncer-nm: it was in cultivation byorsyth, in the Chelsea Bo-®nic Garden,before 1785; but, 's Mr. Lambert, in 1804, foundremarkably fine tree growingcam’s Hill, it was in allProbability planted there byH e °onder of the place, theon ' Charles Hamilton, pre-

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