. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . the apicalend ; in old age irregular in length anddireition, and often contorted. Branchlets inwhorls of three — five, stoutish, covered Avithreddish brown, obliquely furrowed bark that isalmost concealed by the close-set foliage. Budsovoid-conic, acute, 0-5 — 0-75 inch long, Avithnarrowly lanceolate, acuminate pale chestnut-broAvnperulae often coated with jiale limpid
. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . the apicalend ; in old age irregular in length anddireition, and often contorted. Branchlets inwhorls of three — five, stoutish, covered Avithreddish brown, obliquely furrowed bark that isalmost concealed by the close-set foliage. Budsovoid-conic, acute, 0-5 — 0-75 inch long, Avithnarrowly lanceolate, acuminate pale chestnut-broAvnperulae often coated with jiale limpid (piinate, i)ersistent several years, crowded,incurved, and pressed against the branchlets,tri(|uetral, with entire margins, 1—PS inch long,dark green on the outer convex side, markedwith silver-grey stomatiferous lines on the twoinner faces ; basal sheath al)0ut one-eighth ofan inch long, and soon falling off. Staminateflowers ellipsoid, about 0-5 inch long, in shortcrowded spikes, Avith orange-brown anthers and .•01. Branchiet reduced and surroimded at the base by five ovate, acute. leaves nat. size of Pinus ? i t ^ j r> i , . F.(dfa„nnn,f. iiivoiucral hracts. Cones sub-erect or 314 PINUS BALFOUltlANA. sul)-cyliii(lric, slightly tapiiing, 3-5—5 inches long, comjxised of narrowelongated scales with a rhouihoidal apophysis transversely I^ccIcmI andterminating in an awndike ])rickle. Pinus Balfouiiana, Murray, Oregon Exjud. 1. t. 3, tig. 1 (l>sr»:5) ; and in V. (1876), p. 332, witli tig. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. Gordon,Piiiet. ed. II. 293. Engelniann in Brewer and Watsons Bot. CaUfor. II. 12r».Lawson, Pinet. Brit. I. 11, with tigs. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 272. Masters inJourn. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 225. Sargent, Silva N. Amer. XI. 59, t. 553. P. aristata, Eugehiiann in Trans. St. Louis Aead. II. 205 t. 506 (1863).Carriere, Traite Couif. ed. II. 421. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 400. Lawson,Pinet. Brit. I. 5, with tigs. Gordon
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