BOTANY. 



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and no pine at the west bears cones of tins character, unless, as in that unfortunate case, as a 

 monstrosity. 



The pine described by Mr. Murray under the name of P. Beardsleyi is evidently one of the 

 most common forms of P. ponderosa. The differences which he suggests are such as are often 

 exhibited by the trees of the same grove. The leaves are long or short, the cones large or 

 small, the wood hard and resinous, or soft, according to the soil in which it grows. 



PINUS SABINIANA. Sabine s pine nut pine. 

 P. SABINIANA, Dougl. in Comp. to Bot. Mag. 11. p. 150. 

 P. SABINIANA, Lambert, Pinus, Ed. 2d, 2, p. 146, t. 80. 

 P. SABINIANA, Hook, Flor. Bor. Amer. 2, p. 162. 

 P. SABINIANA, Nutt. Sylva. 3, p. 110, t. 702. 



Fig. 13. Cone of P. Sabiniana, % natural size. 



Fig. 13a, b. Leaves and seed of P. Sabiniana, natural size. 



The &quot;nut pine,&quot; as this tree is commonly called in California, is scarcely less interesting 



