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This beautiful Pine is supposed to have been discovered in 1787 

 during the ill-fated voyage of Lapeyrouse; a cone gathered by Colligon, 

 a gardener who accompanied the expedition, was sent to the Museum 

 d'Histoire Xaturelle at Paris, and twelve plants were raised from the 

 These plants were described by Loiseleurf in 1812 under the 



name of Pinus caUfomica, which is therefore the oldest name, but as 

 they subsequently disappeared, much doubt is involved in the 

 identification and Loiseleur's name is thence passed over. Douglas 

 re-discovered the Pine during his sojourn at Monterey in 1831 1832, 

 and cones were received from him by the Horticultural Society of 



* His name is commemorated by the monotypic genus Loiseleuria, founded for the reception 

 of a little alpine and sub-arctic ericaceous shrub, L. proctimbens, that is also .wild in Scotland, 

 but now become extremely rare. 



