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jecting from each, which is generally straight. Leaves from 1} in. to 2J in.long. Sheaths with 3 or 4 rings. Seeds small, cotyledons 6 to 8.Young shoots covered with a fine purplish glaucous bloom.

Description. A tortuous-branchedlow tree, having, at a distance, thegeneral appearance of P. Banksidna;but differing from that species inhaving many of the more slenderbranches pendulous, and the woodof the shoots of the current yearconspicuously glaucous and tingedwith violet; a character which, asMichaux observes, is peculiar tothis species and to P. mitis; andthe trunk and larger branches pro-ducing small tufts of leaves, or abor-tive shoots. According to Michaux,it grows, in North America , from30 ft. to 40 ft. in height, with a dark-coloured trunk, and the branchesproceeding from it, not in whorls, |but irregularly, more in the mannerof broad-leaved trees than is usualwith the ^bietinae. The bark, in oldtrees, is deeply cracked; and throughthe fissures resin exudes in suchabundance, as to give the trunktod branches the appearance of be-ing candied over with sugar. Theleaves are of a dark green, and scat-tered equally over the branches, in the manner of P. Banksidna; but theyate not so persistent, nor so glaucous, as in that species. The cones, Michauxdescribes as about 2 in. long, and 1 in. in diameter at the base: they areattached' by short thick peduncles, and are armed with long fine awl-shapedspines; they are usually single, and turned more or less towards theSmund. In the neighbourhood of New York , inlat. 41°, the flowers appear in the beginning ofMay; the cones are mature in the November ofthe second year; and the seed drops out the fol-lowing spring. The trees of this species in thePmetum at firopmore agree very well with Mi-ehaux’s description; but they are not yet suffi-ciently old, or, perhaps, our summers are notsufficiently warm, to ctiuse an exudation of resinto the extent mentioned by that author. Thebuds, however, are resinous ; and this matter veryreadily exudes, and incrusts the surface of the sec-tions wherever a branch is cut off. At Dropmore,

"i warm weather during sunshine, the fragrance.. the air in the neighbourhood of this tree is de-tightfully balsamic.

Geography, History, Sfc. The Jersey pine in-habits the interior of North America , chiefly southoi latitude 45°; and, according to Pursh, it is°und from New Jersey to Carolina, on dry,

Wen soils. Michaux states that it abounds in

be lower parts of New Jersey , where the soil is meagre and sandy, andhere it j s often accompanied by the yellow pine (P. mitis); and that,s also found in Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky ; in Pennsylvania ,

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