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AKliUlttTUJM AND FilUTICETUM. 



PAKT III. 



2202 



1 41. P. (S.) Lamber'tta'na Dougl. 



The gigantic, or Lambert's, Pine. 



Lawson's Manual, 



Identification. Dougl. in Lin. Trans., 15. p. 500. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2, 1. t. 34. 

 p. 3S1. ; Lodd. Cat, ed. 183fi. 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. !^., t. 34. ; our ^g. 2206., to our usual scale; and ^^^s. 2203. to 2205., 

 of the natural size; the cone and scale from Douglas's specimens in the Horticultural Society's 

 herbarium, and the buds and leaves from the tree in the Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Spec. Char., &c. Leaves in fives, rigid, 

 roughish ; sheaths very short. Cones 

 thick, very long, cylindrical ; scales loose, 

 roundish. (Douglas.) Buds, in the spe- 

 cimen from the Horticultural Socie- 

 ty's Garden, i in. long, and i in. 

 broad ; roundish, pointed, and with 

 3 smaller buds. (See /g. 2203.) 

 Leaves 2^in. to 3 in. long; in 

 Douglas's specimens, 4^ in. and 

 5 in. long. Cones from 14 in. to 

 16 in. long, and said to be some- 

 times 18 in. long, and 4 in. in 

 diameter in tiie widest part ; 

 scales 14 in. wide, and nearly 2 in. 

 2203 long. Seed large, oval, |- in. long, 

 and nearly ^ in. broad ; dark brown : 

 wing dark brown, and, with the seed, 

 l^in. long, and § in. l)road in the widest 

 part. Native of the north-west coast of 

 North America, where it v/as discovered 

 by Dounlas ; and introduced into Eng- 

 land in 1827. 



Description. According to Douglas, " the trunk of P. Lanibertiana grows 

 from 150 ft. to above 200 ft. in height, varying from 20 ft. to near 60 ft. in cir- 

 cumference. One specimen, whicii liad been blown down by the wind, and which 

 was certainly not the largest, was of the following dimensions : — Its entire 

 length was 21.0 ft.; its circmnferencc, at 3 ft. from the ground, was 57 ft. 9 in., 

 and at 134 ft. from the ground, 17 ft. 5 in. The trunk is unusually straight, and 



