. 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. LXXVll. CONI : PI NUS. 981 abilis may therefore be considered as an imaginary species, or as a synonyme to P. mitis. 1 22. P. PONDERO^SA Dous. The hezyy-wooded Pine. Lawson's Manual^ Ident^ation. Douglas's specimens in the Horticultural Society's herbarium; p. 3M.; Lodd. Cat., ed.
. 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. LXXVll. CONI : PI NUS. 981 abilis may therefore be considered as an imaginary species, or as a synonyme to P. mitis. 1 22. P. PONDERO^SA Dous. The hezyy-wooded Pine. Lawson's Manual^ Ident^ation. Douglas's specimens in the Horticultural Society's herbarium; p. 3M.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836 ; Pin. Wob., p. 44. ; Penny Cyc, vol. 18. Engravijtgs. Pin. Wob., t. 15. ; our^. 1833. to our usual scale; and Jigs. 1830. to 1832. of the natural size, from the tree in the Horticultural Society's Garden, and Douglas's specimens in the Horticultural Society's herbarium. Spec. Char., S^c. Leaves three in a sheath, much longer than the cones, flexible, tortuous, with short sheaths. Crest of the anthers rounded, entire. Cones ovate, reflexed, with the apices of the scales flattened, with a raised process in the middle, terminating in a conical, minute, recurved spine, sHghtly quadrangular. Buds, in Douglas's specimen, i in. long, and f in. broad; cylindrical, with straight sides, rounded like a dome at the extremity, but with a prominent blunt point; dark brown, and covered with resin. Buds, on the living tree in the Horticultural Society's Garden (see fig. 1830.), from 1 in, to l|^in. long, and from f in. to \\ in. broad ; smooth, cylindrical, with a long point; reddish brown, and covered with a fine white bloom, con- sisting of fine particles of resin, sur- rounded by two or more smaller buds. Leaves disposed in parallel spirals ; in Douglas's specimen (see fig. 1832.), 1830. from 9 in. to 11 in. long; 3 in a sheath, which is from \ in. to 1 in. in length, with numerous fine rings ; scales of the leaves per- sistent on the wood, even of two years' or three years' growth. L
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