62 Trees 



which grow without any stalk at the ends of the branches. 

 The large, sweet seeds are eaten by the Indians. At very 

 high altitudes this tree is a low shrub with spreading, nearly 

 prostrate branches. 



MOUNTAIN PINE 



Pinus monticola. Pine Family 



A slender tree fifty to a hundred feet high, and one to six feet in 

 diameter. Leaves: in fives, blue-green, glaucous. Flowers: the 

 staminate ones oval, yellow; the pistillate ones oblong, pale purple. 

 Fruit: pendulous cones with thin scales. 



The Mountain Pine is tall and slim, with spreading and 

 somewhat drooping branches. The bark on young trees 

 is pale gray, and on mature trees is divided into square 

 plates covered by small, flat, purple scales. The leaves are 

 deep blue-green, and covered with a lovely bloom ; while the 

 long hanging cones are slightly thickened, and smoothed 

 towards the top, and terminate in a small, prickly pro- 

 tuberance. 



BULL PINE 



Pinus ponderosa. Pine Family 



A tree with massive stem.. Leaves: tufted at the ends of naked 

 branches, rigid, in two or three-leaved clusters. Flowers: staminate 

 yellow, pistillate clustered, dark red. Fruit: oval, nearly sessile, three 

 to six inches long, often clustered, green or purple, becoming reddish- 

 brown, the scales armed with slender prickles. 



The Bull Pine grows from one hundred and fifty feet to 

 two hundred feet high, and has short thick many- forked 

 branches which are frequently pendulous and turned upward 

 at the ends. The bark is cinnamon-red, brown or nearly 

 black, broken into rounded ridges and covered with ap- 

 pressed scales. On the older trees it is deeply and irregu- 

 larly divided into plates, and separated into thick reddish 



