interested in their determined seizure of the 

 ocean-blown sands, century after century, and 

 their individually different implements or 

 armor, with which they have learned to equip 

 themselves for resisting the fury of the ocean 

 gales. 



Examination reveals the curious fact that 

 the southernmost of the line, the one in the 

 semi-tropic latitude of San Diego, is the most 

 limited in area of occupation and in the num- 

 ber of trees, and that it has the largest cones, 

 with the largest seeds ; the leaves are the 

 largest, the longest, and they have the great- 

 est number in the fascicle; grading down in 

 several respects through species after species, 

 the last one being the little dwarf pine, with 

 minute organs, condensed for the fight along 

 the Arctic shore of Alaska. 



First is the Torrey Pine (P. Torrcyana), 

 named for the eminent botanist Dr. John Tor- 

 rey; often called the Lone Pine. It is found 

 on the beach near Del Mar, twenty miles north 

 of San Diego, with a few on adjacent islands. 

 It is now reduced to a few hundred trees, 

 crouched and creeping on the sand or strug- 

 gling for the erect position in the valley back 

 of the bluffs, their tops broadened out and 

 flattened to just the level of the barrier. 



The prostrated trees on the shore side are 

 on all-fours, so to speak, and thrusting up- 

 ward short, sturdy shoots heavily loaded with 

 circles or with solitary cones, which are nearly 

 globular, four to five inches long, and of the 

 hardest and heaviest character, two to three 

 pounds weight, with short points to the broad 

 scales. The seeds, hard as filberts, are about 

 an inch long, the largest pine seeds known. 

 The leaves reach the limit of extension at 

 three points; they are twelve to eighteen inches 

 long, one-tenth of an inch wide, and there 

 are five of these unequaled needles to the fas- 

 cicle. 



