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of Pinus, native of California. 499 
about twice as long as the seed ; it has an innumerable quantity 
of minute sinuous vessels filled with a crimson substance, and 
forming a most beautiful microscopic object. ‘The embryo has 
12 or 13 cotyledons. 
The whole tree produces an abundance of pure amber- 
coloured resin. Its timber is white, soft, and light: it abounds 
in turpentine reservoirs, and its specific gravity has been as- 
certained from a specimen brought home by me, to be 0:463. 
The annual layers are very narrow; in the above specimen 
there were 56 in the space of four inches and a half next the 
outside. The resin, which exudes from the trees when they 
are partly burned, loses its usual flavour, and acquires a sweet 
taste, in which state it is used by the natives as sugar, being 
mixed with their food. The seeds are eaten roasted, or are 
pounded into coarse cakes for their winter store. I have since 
my return been informed by Mr. Menzies, that when he was on 
the coast of California with Captain Vancouver in 1793, seeds 
of a large Pine, resembling those of the Stone Pine, were served 
in the dessert by the Spanish priests resident there. These 
were no doubt the produce of the species now noticed. The 
vernacular name of it, in the language of the Umptqua Indians, 
is Nát- cleh. 
The species to which this Pine is most nearly allied is un- 
doubtedly Pinus Strobus ; from which, however, it is extremely 
different in station, habit, and parts of fructification. I have 
named it in compliment to Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq., a 
Vice-President of the Linnean Society, whose splendid labours 
in investigating the genus Pinus are too generally known and 
appreciated to require any eulogium from fnb. 255 | 
It only now remains for me to give the distinctive character 
of the species. 
P. Lam- 
