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spreading, semi-terete and deeply-channeled, mucronate and subacute, 
scarcely rougliisli on the margin; cones 1-4, verticillate, 1-2' long, 10-15" 
wide, ovoid, suhobtuse, straight or curved, persistent ; scales 3-4" wide, with 
a shining pyramidal 4-sided summit, the transverse ridge acute, mucronate 
with a deciduous straightish or incurved spine. — On the coast from Northern 
Cahfornia to Sitka. Yar. latifolia, Eng., in litt. The mountain form, with 
broader leaves, extending eastward to Colorado, and said to attain a height 
of 40-60°. It was seen only in the Uintas, at an altitude of 7-8,000 feet, 
not over 20° high, rather slender, with a somewhat scaly grayish- 1> row n bark ; 
known as ''Red Pine." The specimens show numerous sessile sterile aments, 
4-5" long, the anther-crest semi-orbicular with a torn or irregular mar- 
gin. The mucro upon the scales of the cones is frequently li" long; 
bracts persistent, thickened ; seed 2" long, oval, dark-colored, wing 3 times 
longer. (1,110.) 
PiNUS PONDEROSA, Dougl. DC. Prodr. 16. 2. 395. Tall, with wide- 
spreading or subpendulous branches; bud-scales lanceolate, acuminate; 
sheaths rather long ; leaves in threes, usually long, 4-10', and f-l" broad, 
clustered at the ends of the stout and rigid branchlets, erect or spreading, 
rather rigid, scabrous on the margin, somewhat sharply mucronate ; sterile 
aments numerous, fascicled, cylindrical, with suborbicular crenate-dentate 
crests ; cones usually 3-4, short-ped uncled and subpendulous, 3-6' long, 
1^-2' wide, conic or conic-cylindric, striiight ; scales 1-lj' long, 6-9" wide, 
the subrhombic summit elevated, radiately cracked, the transverse ridge acute, 
the mucro stout, sharp, and recurved ; bracts persistent, thickened ; seed 
oval, 3-5'' long, the wing oblong, obtuse, I'long. — New Mexico to Cahfornia, 
and northward to Colorado and Washington Territory. Washoe Mountains, 
Nevada, and in the Uintas ; 5-8,000 feet altitude ; known as '' Yellow Pine." 
Bark light-red, yellowish-brown within, thick, cracking irregularly and 
cleaving into small very irregularly shaped scales. The sterile aments are 
described as 1' long. or more ; none of those in the collection exceed half an 
inch. (1,111.) 
PiNUS Balfouriana, Murr. Gordon's Pinetum^ p. 217. A middle- 
sized tree, with pendulous or spreading branches, often short and twisted ; 
bud-scales oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, persistent; sheaths of numerous 
oblong fringed scales, soon squarrose or caducous ; leaves mostly in fives, 
densely crowded and often covering the branches, long-persistent, 1-1^' long, 
