

CATALOGUE OF SPECIES. 223 



Pinus murrayana Balfour in Jeffr. Rep. Oreg. Exped. (1853). 



Along the stream at Mineral King a few trees of the tamarack pine occurred, 

 and more of them on the south slope of the mountain crest back of the White Chief 

 Mine. At a few points along water courses between Farewell Gap and Whitney 

 Meadows it occurred in small quantity, and the forests about the latter place (No. 

 162G) were made up principally of it. Towards its upper limit the tree grows mixed 

 with P. balfouriaaa or P. monticola, occasional specimens having been found not 

 more than 30 meters below timber-line. Its lower limit is very uncertain, its tend- 

 ency to follow down the moist meadows along the streams often bringing it well 

 into the belt of P.jeffrcyi. Mr. Funstou collected it on the east slope of the Sierra 

 Nevada, near the head of Osveus River (No. 1864.) 



Pinus ponderosa Loudon, Arbor. & Frut. iv. 2213 (1838)-Dougl. in herb. Type 

 localities, "the north-west coast of North America, on the banks of the Spokan and 

 Flathead rivers, and on the Kettle Falls of the Columbia." 



The western vellow pine was observed only on the western elope of the Sierra 

 Nevada, both in Tejon Canon (No. 1223) and on the East Fork of Kaw^ah River. 

 In the absence of the Nevada nut pine and gray -leaf pine, this species constitutes 

 the lowest belt of coniferous timber in this part of the Sierra Nevada. In the peaks 

 south of Tejon Canon, such as Frazier Mountain and Mount Pinos, this belt of yel- 

 low pine is wanting. Farther northward in the Sierra Nevada there is a continuous 

 belt of it which constitutes an important part of the timber area. 



Pinus ponderosa scopulorum Engelm. in Wats. Bot. Cal. ii. 126 (1880). Type 

 locality, "throughout the Rocky Mountains." 



The Rocky Mountain yellow pine I found only in the Charleston Mountains 

 (No. 318), where it formed a broad belt between the altitudes of about 2,400 and 

 3 000 meters. This locality appears to be the western limit of the tree at this lati- 

 tude It is the common yellow pine of the Rocky Mountain region. Dr. Mernam 

 has reported it from the Yellow Pine Mountains of Utah ; near Sheep Spring, Juniper 

 Mountains, Nevada; and, on the authority of ranchmen, in the Virgin and Highland 

 ranges of the same State. 



Pinus sabiniana Lamb. Gen. Pin. iii. 137 (1837)— Dougl. in herb. 



This tree, the gray-leaf pine, was found at many points in the southern Sierra Nevada 



and the adjacent mountains to the south, as follows: on the west slope of Walker 

 Pass; on the foothills between the latter point and Caliente; on the lower mountain 

 slope's around Tehachapi Valley: on the Liebre Mountains, south of Antelope Val- 

 ley extending to a point, on the authority of Mr. Palmer, 20 kilometers east of Liebre 

 Ranch bouse; and among the foothills near Tejon Ranch (No. 1025). The tree did not 

 form a forest at any point, but grew with the nut pines scattered about in open places 

 on chaparral slopes, below the yellow and black pines. 



Tsuga pattoniana (Jeffr.) Rep. Oreg. Exped. (1853), under Ahies; Engelm. Bot. 



Cal. ii. 121 (1879). 



On the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, near the headwaters of Owens Kiver 

 (No. 1868), and on the western slope of the same range, at the headwaters of Kings 

 River (No. 2087). 



Fseudotsuga macrocarpa (Torr.) Bot. Ives Exped. 28 (I860), as AW.B douglam 

 tmcrocarpa; Lemmou, Third Cal. For. Rep. 134 (1890). Type locality, "mountains 

 near San Felipe," California. The first reference cited contains a nomen nudum. 



On the mountain slope back of Fort Tejon (No. 1160); on the lower southern 

 slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains, near Cajon Pass; and on the south side of 

 the Sierra Liebre, near the head of Peru Creek (MerriamL 



