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The Tuberculated Coned Pine. — (^Pinus tuherculata — Don.) 



This pine was first found hj Dr. Coulter, south of Monterey, along 

 with P. msi[/nis, near the level of the sea, and almost close to the beaph. 

 The foliage is less dense, and duller, rather blueish-green color. It soon 

 attains its height, of ten to tliirt}' feet, and seems satisfied with its hum- 

 ble position in the world. The stem, six to fourteen inches in diameter, is 

 horizontally branched to the very ground, with a spread of foliage nearly 

 equalling its height. This pine seems to play second fiddle to the former, 

 which in many respects it resembles — e.g. in the cones, although longer, 

 seeds, and similar toughness of timber. This knotty, gnarly fellow is as 

 much a match for the dead level breeze as tlie signal pine is for the 

 storm that plays where the sea bird and the eagle soar. The cones cling 

 with a death grip to the old trunk for twenty generations or more; 

 scarceh' less close than the book of fate, and just a little softer than 

 adamant, they are, as it were, clad in a helmet of triple steel. Choice 

 and chary of their vital element, they scatter with careful and prudent 

 hands their seed upon the restless sands, singing sweet lullaby, timed to 

 the echo that dies along the gale. Blessed are the wise provisions of 

 Providence! some storms sweep over their heads ; there's no " timber" 

 here to tempt man's avarice — oft too humble, perhaps, for even his bless- 

 ing and regard. 



Professor Bolander, in the article above referred to — whose observa- 

 tions are entitled to great weight — remarks : 



"P. tuherculata (Don.) Santa Cruz; Ukiah ; Oakland hills; Foxiest 

 Hill ; Eureka. 



" In all these localities it is a small tree, from twenty to thirty feet 

 high, and from six to fourteen inches in diameter. The spreading 

 branches remain, and are low; the foliage seemed to me less dense and 

 not so vivid green as P. viAH/uis. Young trees, raised side and side, 

 showed the same differential characters. The cones from these different 

 localities are of great uniformity, but differ essentially from those of P. 

 insigiiis collected at Monterey. The seeds, however, resemble each other 

 very much. Both species grow equall}^ near the coast, but on different 

 soils. (Whorls of cones, ten to twenty.)" 



Monterey Cypress — (_Capressus macrocarpa — Horts.) 



In our rich coast soils this tree is of rapid and gigantic growth. Clad 

 in a beautiful cloak of emerald to his feet, with freedom to spread his 

 branches afar, and shoot high in prosperous ambition, it takes due pyra- 

 midal proportions, and forms one of the most charming and dense trees 

 we have ever seen. In choice localities, it falls but little short of the 

 great and far famed Cedars of Lebanon. Where this cypress can bathe 

 in a continual cloud, and war with the wind, though it takes the conceit 

 out of his head, strength gathers around his heart. Humbl}^ retracting, 

 he becomes more even and level above ; locks his long and strong arms 

 in an everlasting alliance with his companions, assured that as his day of 

 trial is, so shall his strength ever be. 



Professor Bolander, who has just returned from Cypress Point, their 

 famous locality, (see Proceedings of California Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, December 4, 1865,) remarks : " G. macrocarpa (Ilorts.) Mon- 

 terey ! Tamel Pais (two thousand seven hundred feet!) Mendocino 

 City ! and southeast of Clear Lake ! This species seems to be extremely 



