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CONl'pEH/K. pi'nus.

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received from China in 1829, which is now 16 ft. high, tolerably hardy,and a very handsome plant. Mr. Lambert’s figure is taken from a Chinese drawing in the possession of the Horticultural Society, which may be thereason why in his specific character he has described the leaves as tw oin a sheath: in Mr. Wells’s plant, the number in a sheath is for themost part three.

i 27. P. insi'gnis Doug. The remarkable Pine.

Identification . Douglas’s specimens in the Horticultural Society’s herbarium.

Engravings. Our fig 2172., to our usual scale, a.ndfig. 2171. of the natural size, both from Douglas’sspecimens in the Horticultural Society’s herbarium; and fig. 2170., from the side shoot of a youngtree in the Horticultural Society’s Garden.

Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves three, and occasionally four, in a sheath;much twisted, varying greatly in length, longer than the cones,of a deep grass green, and very numerous. Cones ovate, pointed,with the scales tuberculate. Buds (see fig. 2170.), of the side shootsof young plants, from -J- in. to \ in. long, and from A in. to A in. broad,brown, and apparently without resin; on the leading shoots a 217°2171 'Xv great deal larger, and resem-

bling in form, and almost insize, those of P. Sabini-(hin. Leaves, in Douglas’sspecimen,fromdin. toijin.long; on the plant in the

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Horticultural Society’s Gar-den, from 5 in. to 7 in. long.This pine is well namedinsignis; its general ap-pearance being indeed re-markable, and totally differ-ent from that of every other species that has yet been introduced. Theleaves are of a deep grass green, thickly set on the branches, twisted in everydirection, and of different lengths. The plant seems of vigorous growth,and as hardy as any of the Californian pines. It was sent home byDouglas in 1833; and the plants in the Horticultural Society’s Garden,