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PART 111. 



genus. On application to M. Otto (from whom the plant in the Horticul- 

 tural Society's Garden was received) for further information, he could give 

 us none respecting its geography or history, further than that he had received 

 the cones (from one of which, very kindly sent by him to us, our^g. 2179. is 

 taken) from Mexico, about 1827. P. lAavedna is, at present, one of the 

 most rare species in England, though it might doubtless be propagated by 

 cuttings, or herbaceous grafting on P. halepensis, which it most nearly 

 resembles. 



App. i. Species of S-leaved Pines 'uohich cannot with certainty he 

 referred to any of the preceding Sections, hid of which there are 

 living Plants in England. 



1 31. P. CALiFORNiA^NA Lots. The Californian Pine. 



Identification. Loiseleur Deslongchamps, in tlie N. Du Ham., 5. p. 243. 



Synonymcs. P. montereyensis Gorfp/ro^; jP. adfinca .Bosc, as quoted in Bon Jard., P. monthera- 

 gensis in the Horticultural Society's Garden ; Pin de Monterey, Bon Jard., ed. 1837. 



Spec. Char.y S)-c. Leaves in twos and threes. Cones much longer than the 

 leaves. (Lou.) The following description of this species, written by Pro- 

 fessor Thouin, is taken from the Notivcati Du Hamel: — "This tree grows 

 in the neighbourhood of Monte-Rey, in California. One of its cones, 

 gathered by Colladon, the gardener belonging to the expedition of La 

 Peyrouse, was sent to the Museum of Natural History in Paris in 

 1787. The cone v/as in the form of that of P. Pinaster, but one third 

 larger in all its parts. Under each of the scales were found two seeds, of 

 the size of those of P. Ccmbra, and of which the kernel was good to eat. 

 These seeds, sown in the Jardin des Plantes, produced twelve plants; 

 which, cultivated in the orangery, succeeded very well. Most of these 

 plants were afterwards sent to botanic gardens in the south of France. 

 There still remains one specimen in the Jardin des Plantes, which has 

 stood for several years in the open ground ; where, without being vigorous, 

 it remains in health." Loiseleur Deslongchamps adds that this specimen, 

 in 1812, was 7 ft. high, with leaves 3 in. long, very slender, and of a 

 deep green. M. Vilmorin informs us that the tree in the nursery 

 of M. (iodefroy, from which all the young plants sold by him have 



