158 ERYTHEA. 



But tliis tree was very exceptional, compared with the mass 

 of little trees covering the plains. These had in general, 

 upright branches with numerous and slender branchlets; 

 leaves shorter, denser, and of a darker green than the Pimts 

 contoria {?) which grows near it and is a larger tree 

 altogether; bark reddish, very thin, exhaling a strong resinous 

 odor, and but slightly rimose ; cones two to four inches long 

 (curved when long) and scarcely an inch thick, mostly in 

 pairs, but sometimes in threes, reflexed, I counted fifteen 

 sets of cones on a tree fifteen feet high." 



Upon this excellent description and Bolander's specimen 

 forwarded to De Candolle at Geneva, Parlatore ( who was 

 elaborating the Coniferse for the Prodromus ) published this 

 pine as a new species under the name oiPinus Bolanderi^ in 

 just recognition of excellent services to Californian botany 

 especially as a student and collector of our trees, grasses and 



cryptogams. 



Under Pinns contoria^ Bolander described the other pine 

 thus: — '*In manner of growth it resembles Pinus insigms^ 

 [Monterey Pine] very much. It attains the same height, 

 has the same irregular spreading branches, the same thick 

 rimose bark and very resinous wood. The leaves are 

 invariably in pairs and slightly silvery on the lower surface. 

 The cones are scarcely two inches long with mostly reflex 

 pedicels [ prickles ] on the slightly gibbous side, and 

 persistent for a great number of years, * * * At Mendocino 

 City I found it to extend all over the plains, about eight 

 miles eastward." 



As illustrative of the meager and indefinite .character of 

 the knowledge of western trees at that period, it is interesting 

 to peruse Bolander's musings. "Whether this species is 

 identical with Pinus conioria^ or not, I am unable to decide. 

 Observations made by Mr. Geo. W. Dunn on his travels 

 through the Blue and Siskiyou Mts., have a tendency to 

 show that P. coniorta is altogether a different tree. I 



iProdr. xvi,2 379. 1868. 



