CHAP. CXIII.

coni'fer^e. pi'nus.

2235

Description. “ A middle-sized tree, with many large spreadingbranches. Bark greyish brown, smooth, not cracked, but coveredwith depressed tubercles. Leaves in twos, rarely in threes, verylong, slender, glabrous, wavy, spreading, about 9 in. long; lightgreen, canaliculate above, convex beneath, serrulate on the margin,terminated by a small conical callous mucro; sheaths about £ in.long, persistent, of an ash-brown colour, membranaceous, entireround the tops; guarded at bottom with a linear-lanceolate, revo-lute, bright brown, thread-like, ciliated scale (metamorphosed leaf ).

Cones sessile, generally in clusters, ovate, smooth, brownish, 2 in.to 3 in. long. Cones truncate at the apex, flattish, trapezoidal, um- 2114bilicate, smooth, obsoletely 4-angled ; umbilicus dilated, depressed, somewhathollow, ash-coloured. (D. Don.) This species is nearly related to P. h. mari-tima; but it is readily distinguished both from it and P. halepensis by its verylong wavy leaves, and by its shorter, sessile, clusteredcones, with the scales depressed and slightly con-cave at their apex. The leaves resemble those of P.

Laricio; but they are more slender, and rather longer, and both species differessentially in their cones. Sprengel has referred it to P. Pinaster, not evenallowing it the rank of a variety; but no two species can be more distinct.The leaves in P. Pinaster are twice as stout, straight, and rigid, and disposedin interrupted verticels; and the cones are double the size, with the scaleselevated and angular. The tree of P. brutia is said to attain a considerablesize, and to yield timber of excellent quality.” (Lamb. Pin., iii. t. 82.) Mr.Lambert has raised young plants at Boyton, which he has distributed to dif-ferent public and private establishments, including the Horticultural Society’sGarden.