336 PINUS LAMBERTIANA. 



Finns koraiensis sometimes attains imposing dimensions in Japan ; 

 one standing near a monastery in Kikko is nearly 100 feet high, 

 with a trunk three feet in diameter, but in Japanese gardens it is 

 generally much less. It was introduced into Great Britain, in 1861, 

 by the late John Gould Veitch ; its growth in this country is 

 relatively slow, but the tree is quite hardy almost everywhere, and 

 should be selected for ornamental planting where the larger Pines are 

 unsuitable, except in dry, sandy or heavy wet soils. Good specimens 

 are growing in places so t widely apart as the Royal Gardens at Kew, 

 Ochtertyre in Perthshire, Fota Island near Cork, and Hamwood in 

 Co. Meath. Nothing is known of the quality of the Avood, which in 

 Japan is too scarce to be available for use. 



Pinus Lambertiana. 



'A gigantic tree, with an almost cylindrical trunk 150 300 feet 

 high, and 10 15 feet in diameter, usually free of branches for two- 

 thirds of its height. Bark smooth, ash-brown, fissured into small, oblong 

 plates. Branches spreading, or more or less deflexed ; the branchlets 

 short and flexible, the whole ramification forming an elongated, 

 pyramidal crown. Buds sub-fusiform, with an acute point at the 

 apex ; perulse closely imbricated, lanceolate, red-brown, downy at the 

 edges. Leaves quinate, persistent four five years, triquetrous, 

 mucronate, scaberulous along the margins, 3 5 inches long, bright 

 green on the convex side, with three six stomatiferous lines on each 

 of the flat sides ; basal sheath short, deciduous, usually split into 

 three teeth at the margin. Staminate flowers in rather dense spikes, 

 surrounded at the base by ten fifteen involucral bracts, cylindric, 

 0'5 inch long, light yellow brown. Cones pendulous, cylindric, 

 tapering at the apex, 15 20 or more inches long, and 3 3 '5 inches 

 in diameter ; scales somewhat fan shaped, 2 -5 inches long, and 

 1*75 inch broad. Seeds about 0:5 inch long, with a dark brown 

 roundish oblong wing as long again as the seed. 



Pinus Lambertiana, Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. XV. 500 (1828). Lambert, 

 Genus Pinus, ed. II. Vol. I. 57, t, 34. Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2288, 

 Avith figs. Forbes, Pinet. Woburn, 77, t. 30. Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 150. 

 Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 403. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 486. Hoopes, 

 Evergreens, 134. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 30. Lawson, Pinet. Brit. I. 47, t. 7 and 

 figs. Engelmann in Brewer and Watson's Bot. Califor. II. 123. Beissner, 

 Nadelholzk. 294. Masters in Gard. Chron. I. s 3 (1887), p. 772, with fig. ; and 

 Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 231. Sargent, Silva N. Amer. XI. 27, tt. 542, 543. 



Eng. and Amer. Sugar Pine. Fr. Pin gigantesque. Germ. Riesen-Kiefer, 

 Zucker-Kiefer. Ital. Pino zucchero. 



Pinus Lambertiana occurs throughout the States of Oregon and 

 California from the Columbia river to the San Jacinto mountains, 

 whence it passes into Lower California, reaching its southern limit on 

 Mount San Pedro. It is an alpine tree that follows the Cascade and 

 Sierra Nevada mountains with a vertical range of 2,500 8,000 feet 

 elevation and also the trend of the coast range as far as the Santa 

 Lucia mountains near Monterey ; its best development being attained 

 at 5,000 6,500 feet. It does not form pure forests but is usually 



