Flora Medica

PINACEJE, OR CONIFERJE.1172. P. Pinaster Ait. Kew. ed. 1. iii. 367. Lamb. pin.tt. 4 and 5. Loud. Arb. et Frut. 2213. P. maritima DC.fl. franf. Southern parts of Europe ; especially the sandywastes north of the Mediterranean. (Pinaster,Cluster Pine.)A much larger plant than the Scotch Fir, forming first a spreadinghandsome dark green bush, and afterwards a fine tree. Leaves stout,in pairs, fully 4 inches long. Male flowers in a thyrsoid panicle, of abright yellow, terminating the branches. Crest of the anthers rounded,orbicular, crenated. Female flowers with rich crimson scales. Coneslarge, woody, whorled, pendulous, ovate, sessile, bright brown jeachscale tipped with a short, broad, bluntish spine. Bordeaux turpentine,which has the property of solidifying with magnesia, is procured fromthis plant.1173. P. Cembra Linn, sp.pl. 1419 is said to yield CarpathianBalsam.ABIES.In all characters the same as Pinus, except that the scales ofthe cones are thinned away to the edge, and usually membranousor coriaceous, and that the leaves are never fascicled.1174. A. Picea Lindl. in penny, cycl. A. pectinata DC.fi.fr. ii. 275. Pinus Picea Linn. sp. pi. 1420. Lamb. pin. t. 30.Woodv. t. 209. Picea pectinata Loud. arb. et frut. 2329.Mountains of Siberia, Germany, and Switzerland. (Silver Fir.)Branches horizontal. Leaves copious, linear, either acute or emarginate,entire, spreading more or less perfectly in 2 ranks, and sometimescurved towards one side ; their upper surface of a dark shining,rather glaucous, green ;the under glaucous-white. Male flowers numerous,axillary, solitary, about as long as the leaves, yellow their;axis the length of the toothed involucre ;anthers remarkable for theirrounded 2-lobed crest, crowned with a pair of divaricated horns. Femalecatkins lateral, erect, cylindrical, green ;bracts much narrowerthan the carpellary scales, distinguished by a long, projecting, awlshapedpoint, very conspicuous in the full-grown cones, which are alsoerect, 3 or 4 inches long, cylindrical, of a reddish-green, till they turnbrown in drying. Smith. Strasburgh Turpentine is obtained from this.1175. A. balsamea Marsh, arb.amer.102 A. balsamiferaMichx. arb. forest,iii. 191. Pinus balsamea Linn, sp pi. 1421.Lamb. pin. t. 41. Picea balsamea Loud. arb. etfrut. 2339.Northern partsof North America. (Balm of Gilead Fir.)A handsome small tree resembling the preceding from which itdiffers in having the bracts short-pointed, the crest of the antherspointless, and the cones themselves more acute at each end. The treeitself is never above 20 or 30 feet high. The oleo-resin called Canadabalsam is furnished by this species.1176. A. Larix Lam. illustr. t. 785. f. 2. Pinus LarixLinn. sp. pi 1420. Lamb. pin. t. 35. Woodv. t. 210.europsea DC. fl. fr. No. 2064. Loud. arb. et frut.Larix554