. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 1008 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM I8S7. P. Fseido-Stribus. t 44. P. Pseu'do-iStro^us Lindl. The False-Strobus, or Fake Weymouth, Pine. Identification. Lindl. in Bot. Keg., M. Chron., 1839, No. 99. Engravings, Our figs. 1887,1888. from specimens sent home by Hartweg. Spec. Char.,
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. 1008 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM I8S7. P. Fseido-Stribus. t 44. P. Pseu'do-iStro^us Lindl. The False-Strobus, or Fake Weymouth, Pine. Identification. Lindl. in Bot. Keg., M. Chron., 1839, No. 99. Engravings, Our figs. 1887,1888. from specimens sent home by Hartweg. Spec. Char., Src. Leaves in fives, very slender, glaucescent. Cones oval, verti- cillate, horizontal. Scales rhomboidal at apex, pyramidal, erect, straightish, with a transverse elevated line. Seeds oval, four or five times shorter than the blackish wing. (Lindl.) A tree. Mexico, at Anganguco, 8000 ft. above the sea. Height ?. Introduced in 1839, by cones sent home by Hart- weg, from which many plants have been raised. The leaves are five, and glaucous like those of the Weymouth pine; but the cones differ in being thickened at the apex, in the manner of other Mexican pines. The cones are between 4 and 5 inches long, by ]|^in. in diameter at the middle, pointed and curved. 2 45. P. FiLiFO^LiA Lindl. The thread-leaved Pine. Identification. Lindl. in Bot. Keg, 1840, M. R., No. 132.; Gard. Mag., 1840, p. 639. Engravings. OMrJigs. 1889,1890. in p. 1010,1011. from specimens sent home by Hartweg. Spec. Char., ^c. Branches rigid, thick. Scales of the bud linear, very acuminate, and with very long cilise. Leaves in fives, very long (l^ft.) acutely triangular ; sheaths long, smooth, persistent. Cones elongate, ob- tuse, 7 or 8 inches in length; scales with lozenge-shaped, depressed, pyra^ midal apices, and terminating in a callous obtuse mucro. (Lindl.') A noble tree, with branches as stout as those of P. australis or stouter. Guatemala, on the Volcan del Fuego. Introduced in 1840 by the Horticultur
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