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usual flavour, and acquires a sweet taste ; in which state it is used by the 

 natives as sugar, being mixed with their food. The seeds are eaten roasted 

 or are pounded into coarse cakes for their winter store. H. S. 



53. P. (S.) BIONTI'COLA Dougl. The Mountain, or short-leaved 

 Weymouth, Pine, 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., vol. 2., 3. t. 87. 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., 3. t. 87. ; and our figs. 1913. and 1914. from Douglas's specimens in the 

 herbarium of the Horticultural Society. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves in fives, short, smoothish, obtuse. Cones cylin- 

 drical and smooth ; scales loose and pointed. (D. Don.} Buds, in the 

 plant in the Lon- 

 don Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, 

 small, resembling 

 those of P. Lam- 

 bertidna. Leaves 

 from 3i in. to 4 in. 

 long, without the 

 sheaths. Cone, 

 from Douglas's 

 specimen, 7 in. 

 long, and If in. 

 broad; rather ob- 

 tuse at the point : 

 scales fin. broad 

 at the widest part, 

 and from 1 f in. to 

 2 in. long, and co- 

 vered with resin. 

 Seed small, 

 long, and 

 broad ; wit 

 wing, IA in. long, 

 and A in. broad. 

 Cotyledons, ?. A 

 tree. High moun- 

 tains, at the Grand 

 Rapids of the Co- 

 lumbia river ; and 

 in California, on 

 the rocky banks of 

 the Spokan river. 

 Height (?). Intro- 

 duced in 1831; but 

 there are only very 

 small plants in 

 England. 



Except in its much 

 shorter and smoother 

 leaves, this species 

 differs but little from 

 P. Strobus, of which 

 it may prove to be 

 only a variety ; but, 

 until an opportunity 

 occurs of examining 

 the male catkins, and 1913 . P . (S-) mont(ooU 



-^ in. 

 ith the 



