Excerpt: ... bright green foliage, confined to the western states of Mexico and ranging on the mountains from southern Jalisco to the latitude of the city of Chihuahua. Each season's growth of leaves hangs from the branchlet like a long beard, from which the tree receives, in some localities, the name "Pino barba caida." In the herbarium the long leaves, deciduous sheaths, and the decurrent bases of the bracts, present a combination of characters not found in other species. Plate XVI . Fig. 155, Cone. Fig. 156, Cone. Fig. ...
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Excerpt: ... bright green foliage, confined to the western states of Mexico and ranging on the mountains from southern Jalisco to the latitude of the city of Chihuahua. Each season's growth of leaves hangs from the branchlet like a long beard, from which the tree receives, in some localities, the name "Pino barba caida." In the herbarium the long leaves, deciduous sheaths, and the decurrent bases of the bracts, present a combination of characters not found in other species. Plate XVI . Fig. 155, Cone. Fig. 156, Cone. Fig. 157, Leaf-fascicle. Fig. 158, Magnified leaf-section. Fig. 159, Tree at Ferraria de Tula. 45 PLATE XVI. P. LEIOPHYLLA (151-154), LUMHOLTZII (155-159) VIII. LONGIFOLIAE Seed-wing adnate to the nut. Leaves long, in fascicles of 3, the sheath persistent. Apophysis of the cone prolonged and reflexed22. longifolia. Apophysis of the cone low-pyramidal23. canariensis. 22. PINUS LONGIFOLIA 1803 P. longifolia Roxburgh ex Lambert, Gen. Pin. i. 29, t. 21. 1897 P. Roxburghii Sargent, Silva N. Am. xi. 9. Spring-shoots uninodal. Leaves in fascicles of 3, the sheath persistent, from 20 to 30 cm. long; resin-ducts external, the hypoderm often in large masses, some or all of the endoderm cells with thick outer walls. Cones from 10 to 17 cm. long, short-pedunculate, ovoid-conic; apophyses lustrous brown-ochre or fuscous brown, elevated into thick, often reflexed, beaks with obtuse mutic umbos; seeds with large nuts and adnate striated dark gray or fuscous brown wings. 48 Of the three Pines of the Himalayas this species is the most important. It grows on the outer slopes and foot-hills from Bhotan to Afghanistan. The wood is used for construction and for the manufacture of charcoal, the thick soft bark is valuable for tanning, the resin is abundant and of commercial importance, and the nuts are gathered for food. The tree is not hardy in cool-temperate climates, but has been successfully grown in northern Italy. It differs from P. canariensis in the usually...
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