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XXXVI. Description of a new Species of the Genus Piniis. By 

 Mr. David Douglas, F.L.S. Communicated by the Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



Read Aprils, 1832. 



In the autumn of 1826, in the country southward of the river 

 Columbia, in northern California, I had the good fortune to 

 make some valuable additions to the highly ornamental and 

 useful genus Pinus. The object of this paper is to put on 

 record one of the most curious and interesting species of that 

 genus, the specimens of which, together with the description 

 made on the spot, I had the misfortune to lose in the course of 

 my travels four years ago. I cannot recall to my recollection, 

 without feelings of deep regret, the loss I then sustained of the 

 greatest and most important part of my collections. So remark- 

 able a tree I could then, perhaps, have described from recollec- 

 tion accurately, but I was fearful lest errors might unavoidably 

 have crept into it ; and having found it a second time in the 

 greatest perfection, I now venture to send the present short 

 notice of it for the purpose of insertion in the Transactions of 

 the Linnean Society, should it be considered as deserving a 

 place in their valuable records. 



This tree, so far as I have yet observed, attains to but a small 

 size as compared with those species of the genus which inhabit 

 the northern and western parts of this continent. The trees are 

 of a tapering form, straight, and of regular growth, 40 to 120 

 feet in height, 2 to 12 feet in circumference, clothed with 



branches 



