190 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



354. Pinus cembroides, Z 



Flora, ii, 93. Kndlicher, Syn. Conif. 182. Fl. ties Serves, iv, 3446, t. 97. Nelson, Pinacero, 107. Parlatore in Do Candolle, Prodi. 

 xvi 5 , 397. Engehnann in Trans. St. Louis Acad. iv, 176. Watson in Proc. Am. Acad. xviii, 158. 



P. Llareana, Sctiede & Deppe in Linna-a, xii, 488. Forbes, Pinetnm Woburn. 49, t. 17. Antoine, Conif. 3S, t. 16, f. 1. 

 Spacb, Hist. Veg. xi, 401. Liudley & Gordon in Jonr. Hort. Soc. London, v, 216. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 405; 2 ed. 

 461. Gordon, Pinetiini, 199 : 2 ed. 274 (excl. syn. edulis). Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 64 (oxcl. syn. edulis). 

 Hoopes, Evergreens, 143. 



P. osteospermtt) F,ngeluiauii in Wislizeuns' Rep. No. 3. Liudley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 216. Carriere in 

 Fl. des Serres, ix, 200 ; Rev. Hort. 1854, 227. 



NUT PINE. 



Santa Catalina mountains, Arizona (Pr ingle) ; through northern Mexico. 



A small tree, in Arizona 6 to 7 meters in height, with a trunk hardly exceeding 0.30 meter in diameter; dry 

 ridges and slopes at 3,500 feet elevation. 



Wood light, soft, very close-grained, compact; bands of small summer cells thin, not conspicuous, resin 

 passages few, small; medullary rays numerous, obscure; color, light clear yellow, the sap-wood nearly white; 

 specific gravity, O.G512 ; ash, 0.90. 



The seeds edible. 



355. Pinus edulis, Engelniann, 



Wislizeuns' Rep. No. 4 ; Wheeler's Rep. vi, 260. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v. 216. Carriere, Fl. des Serres, ix, 

 201; Rev. Hort. 1854, 227; Trait. Conif. 408. Torrey in Sitgreaves' Rep. 173, t. 20; Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 140; Ives' Rep. 28. 



Bigelow in Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 3, 19. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 261. Hoopes, Evergreens, 142. Parlatore in De 

 Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 398. Watson in PL Wheeler, 17. Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colorado ; Hayden's Surv. Misc. Pub. No. 4, 130. 



Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 30. Rothrock in Wheeler's Rep.vi, 9. Rusby in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, ix, 106. Veitch, Manual 



Conif. 172. 



P. cembroides, Gcrdon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 236 & f.; Pinetnm, 192; 2 ed. 265 [not Zuccarini]. Fl. des 

 Serres, iv, 324 b , 325 b , t. 331, f. 97. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soo. London, v, 216. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 404; 

 2 ed. 460. 



P.futilis, Roezl in herb, fide Gordon, Pinetum, Suppl. 76; 2 ed. 265. 



PINON. TTT PINE. 



Eastern base of Pike's peak, Colorado, south through New Mexico to the mountains of western Texas. 



A small tree, G to 9 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.90 meter in diameter; dry mesas and slopes, generally 

 on lime or sandstone, reaching in Colorado an elevation of 9,000 feet. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, brittle, close-grained, compact, durable in contact with the soil ; bands of small 

 summer cells thin, not conspicuous, resin passages few, small; medullary rays numerous, obscure; color, light 

 brown, the sap-wood nearly white ; specific gravity, 0.6388 ; ash, 0.62 ; largely used for fuel, charcoal, fencing, etc., 

 and in western Texas occasionally manufactured into inferior lumber. 



The large edible nuts supply the Indians with a valuable article of food. 



356. Pinus monophylla, Torrey & Fremont, 



Fremont's Rep. 319, t. 4. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 261. Bolander in Proc. California Acad. iii, 318. Hoopes, Evergreens, 

 142. Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 378. Law son, Pinetum Brit, i, 65, t. 9, f. 1-12 (P. Fremontiana on plate). Watson 

 in King's Rep. v, 330 ; PI. Wheeler, 17. Koch, Dendrologie, ii 2 , 271. Bertrand in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xviii, 81, t. 5, f. 81. 

 Rothrock in PI. Wheeler, 28, 50. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 30. Palmer in Am. Nat. xii, 594. Engelniann in Wheeler's Rep, vi, 

 259, 374 ; Trans. St. Louis Acad. iv, 178 ; Bot. California, ii, 124. Sargent in Am. Jour. Sci. 3 ser. xvii, 419. Masters in London 

 Gard. Chronicle, 1883, p. 48, f. 8. 



P. Fremontiana, Endlicher, Syu. Couif. 1831, in part. Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, iv, 293 &f. ; Pinetum, 194; 2ed. 

 235. Knight, Syu. Conif. 28. Liudley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 216. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 194 ; 2 

 ed. 462. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadolholz. 62. 



PINON. NUT PINE. 



Near Utah lake, Utah, to the eastern foot-hills of the California sierras, south along the mountain ranges of the 

 Great Basin to the San Francisco mountains of eastern Arizona. 



A small, bushy tree, 4 to 6 meters in height, with a trunk sometimes 1 meter in diameter; dry, gravelly slopes 

 and mesa* between 3,000 and 6,000 feet elevation. 



