190 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



354. Pinus cembroides, Zuccanni, 



Flora, ii, 93. Enrtliclicr, Syn. Conif. 18-2. Fl. des Series, iv, 344C, t. S>7. Nelson, Pinacese, 107. Parlatore in Do Candolle, Prodr. 

 xvi", 337. Eugi-Imaim iu Truns. St. Louis Acad, iv, 176. Watson in Proc. Am. Acad, xviii, 158. 



P. Llaveana, Scbiedo & Dcppo in Linniea, xii, 488. Forbes, Pinetum Wobnrn. 49, t. 17. Antoine, Conif. 36, t. 16, f. 1. 

 Spacb, Hist. Vcg. xi, 401. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, ai6. Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 405; 2 ed. 

 461. Gordon, Pinetum, 199 ; 2 ed. 274 (excl. syn. edulw). Hcukel & Hochstetter, Nadclbolz. 64 (excl. syn. e<iH<i). 

 Hoopes, Evergreens, 143. 



P. OSteOSperma, Engelmaun in Wislizenus' Rep. No. 3. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 216. Carriiiro iu 

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



NUT PINE. 



Santa Cataliua uiouutaius, Arizoua (Pringle) ; 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 aud 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; 

 Bpeciflc gravity, 0.G512 ; ash, 0.90. . 



The seeds edible. 



355. Pinus edulis, Engelmann, 



Wislizenus' Rep. No. 4 ; Wlieeler's Rep. vi, 260. Lindley &, Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v. 216. Carrifere, 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 iu Pacific R. R. Rep. iv, 3, 19. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1853, 261. Hoopes, Evergreens, 142. Parlatore in De 

 Candolle, Prodr. xvi, 398. Watson in PI. Wheeler, 17. Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colorado; Haydeu'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, Grdon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 236 & f.; Piuetuni, 192; 2 ed. 265 [not Zuccarini].- Fl. des 

 Serres, iv, 324'', 325'>, t. 331, f. 97. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 216. Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 404 ; 

 2 ed. 460. 



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



PINON. NUT PINE. 



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



j^ small tree, 6 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 0e Candolle, Prodr. xvi^, 378. Lawson, Pinetum Brit, i, 65, t. 9, f. 1-12 (P. TVemoHtiana on plate). Watson 

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

 Rothrock iu PI. Wheeler, 28, 50. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 30. Palmer in Am. Nat. xii, 594. Engelmann iu Wheeler's Rep, \'i, 

 259,374; Trans. St. Louis Aoad. iv, 178; Bot.-Califomia, ii, 124. Sargeut in Am. Jour. SCi. 3 sor. xvii, 419. Masters in London 

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



P. Fremontiana, Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 1831, in part. Gordon iu Jour. Hort. Soc. Loudon, iv, 293 & f. ; Pinetum, 194 ; 2 ed. 

 235. Knight, Syn. Conif. 28. Liudley & Gordon iu Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 216. Carrifere, Trait. Conif 194 ; 2- 

 ed. 462. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 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 iu height, with a trunk sometimes 1 meter in diametr; dry, gravelly slopes 

 aud mesas between 3,000 and 6,000 feet elevation. 



