LXXVII. CONI FERiE : PI NUS. 



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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. 



1 53. P. (5*.) MONTi'coLA Doiigl. The Mountain, or short-leaved 



Weymouth, Pine. 



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



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

 herbarium of the Horticultural Society. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves in fives, short, smoothish, 

 drical and smooth ; scales loose and pointed. {D. 

 plant in the Lon- 

 don Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, 

 small, resembling 

 those of P. Lam- 

 bert/ana. Leaves 

 from .3i in. to 4 in. 

 long, without the 

 sheaths. Cone, 

 from Doufflas's 



obtuse. 

 Don.) 



Cones 

 Buds 



cylin- 

 in the 



I m. 

 If in. 



specimen, 

 long, and 

 broad; rather oh 

 tuse at the point : 

 scales fin. broad 

 at the widest part, 



and from 1 f in. to 



2 in. long, 



vered with 



Seed 



long, 



broad 



'4 



and co- 



resin. 

 small, -^^in. 

 and ^ in. 

 ; with the 



and 



lim. 



long. 



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 18.31; but 

 there are only very 

 small plants in 

 England. 



Except in its much 

 shorter and smoother 

 leaves, this species 

 differs but little from 

 P. iStrobus, of which 

 it may prove to be 

 only a variety ; but, 

 until an opportunity 

 occurs of examining 

 the male catkins, and 



191.^. P.{S.) montioola- 



