This section is from the book "British Wild Flowers In The Four Seasons", by Thomas Moore. Also available from Amazon: British Wild Flowers.
P. sylvestris: tree; leaves evergreen, rigid, subulate, growing in pairs, each pair surrounded by a membranous sheath; male catkins small, oblong, clustered; young cones small ovate-conical stalked recurved, in the mature state enlarged formed of woody close-set scales. - Scotch Fir or Common Pine. - Highlands. Fl. May.
 
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