. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. ce rendered still more striking bythe bare spaces left at the bottom of eachannual shoot by the decadence of the malecatkins, which, when in bloom, surroundthe lower part of the shoots. The sheathscontaining the leaves are nearly threequarters of an inch long, imbricated, and,when old, of a blackish colour. The barkof the trunk is always deeply-furrowedand of a dark brown colour, and theterminal buds are large, covered withbrown, chaffy, involuted scales, and perfectly free fromany resinous coating. The cones, which frequently mea
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. ce rendered still more striking bythe bare spaces left at the bottom of eachannual shoot by the decadence of the malecatkins, which, when in bloom, surroundthe lower part of the shoots. The sheathscontaining the leaves are nearly threequarters of an inch long, imbricated, and,when old, of a blackish colour. The barkof the trunk is always deeply-furrowedand of a dark brown colour, and theterminal buds are large, covered withbrown, chaffy, involuted scales, and perfectly free fromany resinous coating. The cones, which frequently mea-sure five inches in length, are placed in whorls roundthe branches, pointing outwards in star-like clusters, fromthree to as many as seven or eight together ; they firstappear upon the shoots of the current year of a purplishcolour, then change to green, and when matured, whichtakes place in the autumn of the second year, become ofa rich and shining brown. The scales, which are an inchand a half in length, terminate in regular rhomboidal pyra- 442 CONIFER mids, whose summits consist of asmaller pyramid of a greyish co- /lour, hard and seeds, a little more than aquarter of an inch long, are at-tached to a large membranouswing, which is upwards of aninch in length, and the cotyle-dons of the seedling are sevenor eight in number. Many fine examples of the Pin-aster are to be met with in vari-ous parts of England ; in the gardens of Fulham palacethere is one upwards of eighty feet high, with a trunkmore than twelve feet in circumference ; at Sion House,Loudon mentions several above sixty feet high. In Hampshire, Cornwall, and Norfolk, it has been plantedextensively, and in all these counties there are Pinasters offine growth and large dimensions. In Northumberland, werecollect a very fine and highly ornamental tree which grewin the neighbourhood of Belford, but which fell a sacrificeto the axe, being mistaken for an ancient individual of thecommon species. At
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