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A very handsome tree, growing sixty feet high, with long 

 weeping branches like those of the Weeping Willow, and easily 

 distinguished from all other Mexican Pines on that account. 



It was first discovered in 1844 by M. Gheisbreght, near the 

 Hacienda del Potrees, in the Ravine of Mestitlan, on the route 

 from Mexico to Tampico, and is No. 34 of M. Gheisbreght's 

 specimens. It was also found by Mr. Charles Ehrenberg (to 

 whom I am indebted for my specimens, and account of the tree), 

 upon a mountain along the road to the city of Mexico, at a 

 place called Cuernavaca, at an elevation of from 8,000 to 9,000 

 feet. It has been named in compliment to Mr. Pinee, of Exeter. 



No. 41. PiNUS PONDEROSA, Doiiglas, the Heavy-wooded Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Craigiana, Hort. 

 „ „ Beardsleyi, Hort. 



Leaves, in threes, from eight to ten inches long, twisted, rather 

 broad, and flexible, thickly set on the branches, and sharp- 

 pointed. Sheaths, one inch long, smooth, but much shorter, 

 and shrivelled on the old leaves. Branches, few, in regular 

 whorls, robust, twisted, and rather drooping ; buds, bluntly- 

 domed, with a prominent point, and full of^ resin. Cones, 

 straight, ovate, tapering to both ends, particularly towards the 

 apex, three inches and a half long, and one inch and three 

 quarters broad ; in clusters round the branches, on very short 

 stout footstalks, bent downwards. Scales, flattened, irregularly 

 four-sided, one inch broad, with a raised centre, terminating in 

 a conical recurved spine, slightly four- sided. Seeds, middle 

 size, with a short broad wing three quarters of an inch long. 



A tree of great size, growing upwards of 100 feet high, and 

 four or five feet in diameter, with thirty or forty feet of the stem 

 free from branches. 



It is found abundantly on the North-west coast of America^ 

 and in California, particularly on the banks of the Flathead and 

 Spoken Rivers, and the Kettle Falls of the Columbia, west of 

 the Rocky Mountains, and in Rose River Valley in California, 

 mostly growing in alluvial soils. 



Timber, heavy and excellent. 



It is quite hardy. 



