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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



***Leaves in 5-leaved clusters. 

 Seeds shorter than their wings. 



34. Pinus Torreyana, Torr. Torrey's Pine. 



Leaves forming great tufts at the ends of the branches, stout, dark green, 

 conspicuously marked on the 3 faces by numerous rows of stomata, 8'-13' long. 

 Flowers from January to ]\Iarch ; staniinate yellow, in short dense heads ; pistillate 



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subterminal on long stout peduncles. Fruit broadly ovate, spreading or deflexed, on 

 long stalks 4'-6' in length, becoming bright chestnut-brown, with thick scales armed 

 with minute spines ; mostly deciduous in their fourth year and in falling leaving 

 a few of the barren scales on the stalk attached to the branch ; seeds oval, more 

 or less angled, |'-1' long, dull brown and mottled on the lower side, light yellow- 

 brown on the upper side, with a thick hard shell, nearly surrounded by their dark 

 brown wings often nearly 1' long. 



A tree, usually 30-40 high, with a short trunk about 1 in diameter, or occa- 

 sionally 50-60 tall, with a long straight slightly tapering stem 2^ in diameter, 

 stout spreading and often ascending branches, and ver^'^ stout branchlets bright green 

 in their first season, becoming light purple and covered with a metallic bloom the 

 following year, ultimately nearly black. Bark of the trunk |'-1' thick, deeply and 

 irregularly divided into broad flat ridges covered by large thin closely appressed 

 light red-brown scales. Wood light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, light yellow, 

 with thick yellow or nearly white sapwood; occasionally used for fuel. The large 

 edible seeds are gathered in large quantities and are eaten raw or roasted. 



Distribution. Only in a narrow belt a few miles long on the coast near the mouth 

 of the Soledad River just north of San Diego, and on the island of Santa Rosa, Cali- 

 fornia; the least widely distributed Pine-tree of the United States. 



2. LARIX, Adans. Larch. 



Tall pyramidal trees, with thick sometimes furrowed scaly bark, heavy heartwood, 

 thin pale sapwood, slender remote horizontal often pendulous branches, elongated 

 leading branchlets, short thick spur-like lateral branchlets, and small subglobose 

 buds, their inner scales accrescent and marking the lateral branchlets with promi- 



