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California, attaining fifty feet in height. It is valua- 
ble as a shelter-tree in stormy localities. 
Pinus Coulteri, Don. — California, on the eastern 
slope of the coast range, at an elevation of three thou- 
sand to four thousand feet. A pine of quick growth, 
attaining a height of seventy-five feet; it has the 
largest cones of all pines. 
Pinus Douglasii, Sabine. — Oregon Pine. N. W. 
America, forming very extensive forests. <A large 
conical-shaped tree, up to three hundred feet in height, 
with a stem of two to ten feet in diameter, Only in 
a moist forest climate of rapid growth. 
Pinus dumosa, Don (P. Brunoniana Wall).—Boo- 
tan, Sikkim, and Nepal, ten thousand feet above sea- 
level. A very ornamental fir, rising to seventy or 
eighty feet. 
Pinus excelsa, Wall.—The Lofty or Bootan Pine. 
Himalaya, forming large forests at from six thousand 
to eleven thousand five hundred feet elevation. A 
fine tree, one hundred and fifty feet high, furnishing 
a valable, close-grained, resinous wood, as well as a 
good quantity of turpentine. 
Pinus Fortunei, Parlatore—China, in the neighbor- 
hood of Foochowfoo. A splendid tree, seventy feet 
high, somewhat similar in habit to P. Cedrus. 
‘Pinus Fraseri, Pursh.— Double Balsam Fir. On 
high mountains of Carolina and Pennsylvania. This 
tree, which gets about twenty feet high, yields, with 
P. Balsamea, Canada Balsam, 
Pinus Geradiana, Wall.—Nepal Nut Pine. In the 
N. E. parts of the Himalaya, at an elevation of ten 
thousand to twelve thousand feet, forming extensive 
forests. The tree gets fiffy feet high, and produces 
very sweet, edible seeds, also turpentine. 
