CHAP. CXIIT. 



CONl'FERiE. Pl^NUS. 



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vegetable deposits on the 

 western flank of the Cordille- 

 ras of New Albion, at a great 

 elevation above the level of 

 the sea, and 1600 ft. below 

 the verge of perpetual snow, 

 in the parallel of 40° N. lat. 

 On the less elevated moun- 

 tains near the coast, where 

 the temperature is higher, but 

 more uniform, in the parallel 

 of 31° north, in decomposed 

 granite schistus, or gravelly 

 soils, the trees are smaller and 

 few, inhabiting the summits 

 of the mountains only. The 

 wood is white, soft, even- 

 grained, and perhaps not very 

 durable. (Lajnb. Pin., t. 80. ; 

 and Com]}, to the Bot. Mag., 

 ii. p. 150.) In the Companion 

 to the Botanical Alagazine are 

 published a number of letters 

 from Douglas to Sir W. J. 

 Hooker, by which it appears 

 that Douglas discovered this 

 pine in 1826, and named it in 

 compliment to his early friend 

 and patron Mr. Sabine; but, 

 unfortunately, he lost his spe- 

 cimens, together with the notes he had made, in crossing a rapid stream, on 

 his return northward. In a letter dated Monterey, Upper California, No- 

 vember 23. 1831, after stating that he had found another tree of this species, 



he says, " I sent to London a 

 detailed account of this most 

 beautiful tree, to be published 

 in the Horticultural Transac- 

 tiotis." This account never ar- 

 rived ; but the cones and spe- 



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cimens were received in 1832; 

 and plants were raised from the 

 seeds, in the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Garden, that year. Of 

 one of these, which, in 1837, 



