CATALOGUE OF FOREST TREES. 191 



"Wood light, soft, weak, brittle, close-grained, compact; bands of small summer cells thin, not conspicuous, 

 resin passages few, not large; medullary rays numerous, obscure; color, yellow or light brown, the sap-wood nearly 

 white; specific gravity, 0.5658; ash, 0.68; largely used for fuel and charcoal. 



The large edible seeds furnish the principal food of the Indians of the Great Basin. 



357. Pinus Balfouriana, Mmray, 



Rep. Oregon Expe?V. i, t. 3, f. 1. Gordon, Pinetiim, 217 ; 2 ed. 293. Henkel & Hoohstetter, Nadelholz. 109. Bolander in Proc. California 

 Acad, iii, 318. Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 2 ed. 425. Nelson, Pinaccte, 104. Hoopes, Evergreens, 149. Fowler in London Gard. 

 Chronicle, 1872, 973. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 33. Engelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad, iv, 179; Bot. California, ii, 125. 

 Veitch, Mamial Conif. 175. Lawson, Pinetum Brit, i, 11, f. 1-5. 



California, Scott's mountain, Siskiyou county {Jeffrey, Lemvion), mount Whitney, and about the headwaters of 

 King and Kern rivers. 



A small tree, 15 to 19 meters in height, with a trunk O.GO to 0.90 meter in diameter ; dry, gravelly slopes and 

 ridges, forming upon Scott's mountain a broad belt of open forest growth between 5,000 and 8,000 feet elevation. 



Wood light, soft, weak, brittle, very close-grained, compact, satiny, susceptible of a good polish ; bands of 

 small summer cells very narrow, dark colored, resin passages few, not conspicuous; medullary rays uumerons 

 obscure; specific gravity, 0.5434 ; ash, 0.41, - 



Var. aristata, Engelmann, 



Wheeler's Rep. vi, 375. Bot. California, ii, 125. Veitch, Manual Conif. 175. 



P. aristatcij Engelmann in Am. Jour. Sci. 2 ser. xxxiv, 331'; Trans. St. Louis Acad, ii, 205, t. 5, 6; iv, 179; Bot. California, 

 ii, 125. Parry in Trans. St. Louis Acad, ii, 123. Wood, Bot. & Fl. 313. Regel, Gartenflora, 1863, iii, 91. Henkel & 

 Hochatetter, Nadelholz. 417. Nelson, Pinacete, 103. Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 2 ed. 424. Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. 

 xvi'', 400. Porter & Coulter, Fl. Colorado ; Hayden's Surv. Misc. Pub. No. 4, 130. Murray in London Gard. Chronicle, 

 1875, 106. Gordon, Pinetum, 2 ed. 291. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 32. Brandegce in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, 32. 

 La-wson, Pinetum Brit, i, 5, f. 1. 



P. Balfouriana, Watson in King's Rep. v, 331 ; PI. Wheeler, 17 [not Murray]. Rothrock in PI. Wheeler, 28, 50. Sargent- 

 in Am. Jour. Sci. 3 ser. xvii, 419. 



FOXTAIL PINE. HICKORY PINE. 



Mountains of southeastern California, Nevada, northern Arizona, and southern Utah to Colorado, above 7,500 

 feet, or in Colorado reaching 12,000 fet elevation. 



A tree 15 to 30 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 2.40 meters in diameter ; dry, gravelly ridges ; not 

 common. 



Wood light, soft, not strong, very close-giained, compact ; bands of small summer cells thin, dark colored, not 

 conspicuous, resin passages few, not prominent ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; color, red, the thin sap-wootl 

 nearly white ; specific gravity, 0.5572 ; ash, 0.30 ; in central Nevada largely used for the timbering of mines, and 

 now nearly exterminated. 



358. Pinus resinosa, Alton, 



Hort. Kew. iii, 357; 2 ed. v, 316. Lambert, Pinus, 1 ed. t. 14; 2 ed. i, 20, t. 14 ; 3 ed. i, 17, t. 13. Willdeuow, Spec, iv, 490; Euum. 

 98S; Berl. Bauraz. 267. Poirot in Lamarck, Diet, v, 339. Persoon, Syn. ii, 578. Desfoutaiues, Hist. Arb.ii, 612. Smith in Rees' 

 Cycl. xxviii, No. 3. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 642. Eaton, Manual, 110; 6 ed. 264.- Nuttall, Genera, ii, 223. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 

 173. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 883.- Torrey, Compend. Fl. N. States, 360; Fl. N.York, ii, 227. Beck, Bot. 339. Loudon, ArborQtum, iv, 

 2210, f.2094-2097. Forbes, Pinetum Woburn. 19, t. 6. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 161, in part. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 358. Bigelow, 

 Fl. Boston. 3 ed. 384. Liadley in Ponn. Cycl. xvii, 170. Autoine, Conif. 7, t. 4, f. 1. Link in Linnfea, xv, 501. Endlicher, Syn. 

 Conif. 178. Knight, Syn. Conif, 27. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 219. Parry in Owen's Rep. 618. Carriferc, 

 Trait. Conif. 401. Gordon, Pinetum, 183(excl.9yn. LoiseZeuriana) ; 2ed.256. Richardson Arctic Exped. 441. Cooperin Smithsonian 

 Rep. 18.58, 2.'>7. Wood, CI. Book, 661 ; Bot. & Fl. 313. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 45 (excl. syn. ioiscJeitriana).- Hoopee, 

 Evergreens, 102. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 470. Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi^, 388. Koch, Dendrologie, ii'^, 286.^ 

 Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 30. M.acoun in Geological Rep. Can.ada, 1875-'76, 211. Engelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad, iv, 179. 

 Soars in Bull. Essex Inst, xiii, 18.'). Bell in Geological Rep. Canada, 1879-'80, 50". A^eitch, Manual Conif. 159. 



P. rubra, Michanx f. Hist. Arb. Am. i, 46, t. 1 ; N. American Sylva, 3 cd. iii, 91, t. 134 [not Lambert]. De Chambravr 

 Trait. Arb. Res. 344. Gihoul, Arb. Resin. 27. Carrifere, Trait. Conif. 2 cd. 496. 



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i' P. Laricio, var. resinosa, Spach, Hist. Veg. 385. 



