370 PIXUS liADIATA. 



forests are under no kind of supervision or control by the government of 

 the country, the trees are felled in a most reckless manner and with a 

 deplorable waste of material. Still greater destruction is caused by the 

 turpentine collectors who mutilate and render useless every tree they 

 attack.* 



Pinus radiata. 



A stately tree 80 100 feet high with a trunk .4 5 feet in diameter, 

 covered with thickish bark deeply . fissured into broad ridges which are 

 " broken on the surface into thick plate-like scales, and with thick 

 spreading branches which form an open round-topped head." In Great 

 Britain a fast-growing tree of broadly pyramidal outline up to forty or 

 fifty years of age, according to locality and situation, when the leader 

 ceases to ascend and the tree becomes flat-topped by the greater 

 development of the uppermost branches. Branches thick and spreading; 

 branchlets in whorls of three five, reddish brown marked with the 

 scars of the fallen leaf fascicles. Buds narrowly cylindric, abruptly 

 pointed, 0'25 0*5 inch long, with ovate, acute, chestnut-brown perulse. 

 Leaves ternate, persistent three four years, triquetral with slightly 

 scabrous margins, 4 6 inches long, stornatiferous on all sides ; basal 

 sheath about one-third of an inch long, loose and scarious. Staminate 

 flowers cylindric, obtuse, 0'5 inch long, spirally arranged in a dense 

 spike, fawn-yellow with a reddish tinge at the apex, and surrounded 

 at the base by fifteen twenty involucral bracts in two series. Cones in 

 clusters of two three together or solitary, shortly stalked, deflexed, 

 unsymmetrically ovoid, sub-acute, 3 5 inches long and 2 3 inches 

 broad at the widest part, the scales largely developed and projecting 

 prominently outwards on the upper exposed side, smaller and only 

 slightly convex or nearly flat and mamrnillate on the under-side. Seed 

 wing three-fourths as long as the scale, oblong, obliquely narrowed at 

 the apex. 



Pinus radiata, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII. 442 (1836). Lambert, Genus 

 Pinus, III. 86. Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 161. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. I. 337. 

 Sargent, Silva N. Amer. XI. 103, tt. 573, 574. 



P. insignis, London, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2266, with figs. (1838). Forbes, Pinet. 

 Woburn,51,t. 18. Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 440. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 395. 

 Lawson, Pinet. Brit. I. 37, tt. 1, 5. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 270. Engelmann in 

 Brewer and Watson's Bot. Califor. II. 127. Coleman in The Garden. XXXVI. (1889), 

 p. 47, with fig. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 271, Masters in Gard. Chron. IX. ser. 3 

 (1891), p. 337, with fig. ; and Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 230. 



Eng. and Amer. Monterey Pine. Germ. Monterey Kiefer. 



Pinus radiata inhabits a strip of coast-land in south California 

 extending for about 150 miles from Pescadero to San Simeon Bay ? 

 spreading inland only a few miles. " It also grows in a peculiar 

 form on Santa Eosa and Santa Cruz of the Santa Barbara group of 

 islets off the coast of south California, and in Guadalupe off the coast 

 of Lower California. The wood is light, soft and brittle, and is 

 used only for fuel." f 



* Walter Siehe in Gartenflora (1897), p. 181, who adds: "Sahe eiii deutscher Forstmann 

 diese planlosen, nur auf momentaiien Gewinn zielenden Verwiistungen, das Herz wiirde 

 ihm bluten." 



1- Silva of North America, XL 104. 



