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coni'fehje. pi'nus.

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been produced by inarching, is supposed to be the only one still existing, ofthose raised from the seeds sent home by Colladon . It is protected everywinter; while those that were planted in the open ground, in the Jardin desPlantes, are all dead. The species is interesting, especially to the French ,as being the only plant that has been preserved, of those sent home by theexpedition under La Peyrouse. The plant in the Horticultural Soci-ety’s Garden, named there P. montheragilnsis, which was received from M.Godefroy about 1829, forms a stunted bush, 3 ft. high, and 4 ft. or 5 ft. broad.It is a grafted plant; and its stunted appearance may be chiefly owing to thescion having swelled to a much greater thickness than the stock, andto the buds having been destroyed by insects for several years past.The buds are small, about f in. long, blunt-pointed, about ^ in. broad,brown, and covered with resin. The leaves are chiefly 3 in a sheath, and from2 in. to 3 in. long, with short black sheaths.

P. Fraseri Lodd. Cat. , ed. 1837. There is a tree bearing this name in theHackney arboretum, which, in 1837, was upwards of 12 ft. high, with 3 leavesin a sheath, and pendulous branches reaching to the ground. The leavesand young shoots have every appearance of those of P. rigida; and, thoughthe tree has not yet borne cones, we have little doubt of its belonging to the$ The'das. The plant was received from the Liverpool Botanic Garden in 1820.

P .timoriensis. A tree at Boyton, which, in 1837, was 1G ft. high, afterbeing 25 years planted, was raised from seed received by Mr. Lambertfrom Timor, one of the Molucca Islands . It bears a close general resem-blance in the foliage and habit to P. longifolia; but the leaves (of whichthere are three in a sheath) are rather more slender, and of a deepergreen; they are 8 in. long, and the sheaths about I in. in length. Buds § inlong, and fin. broad, covered withloose whitish scales, without resin,and blunt-pointed. The tree has notyet borne cones, so that nothing withcertainty can be determined respect-ing the group to which it belongs;but, in the mean time, we have, forconvenience’ sake, given it the nameof P. timoriensis.

App. ii. Pines supposed to have3 Leaves, but of which theCones only have been seen inBritain . The Cones arehooked or tubercled.

1 32. P. murica'ta £). Don. Thesmaller prickly-concd Pine.

Identification. Lin. Trans., 17. p. 441.; Lamb.Pin., 3. t.84-.

fynonyme. Obispo, Span.

Lamb. Fin., 3. t. 84.; and our

Spec. Char., fyc. ? Leaves in threes.Cones ovate, with unequal sides,crowded; scales wedge-shaped, flat-tenedat the apex,mucronate; thoseat the external base elongated, com-pressed, recurved, and spreading.(D. Don.) Cones, in Lambert’sfigure, 2 in. long, and 3 in. broad.

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