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CONIFEILK. Pinus. 



and P. tuherculata, Don, Linn. Trans, xvii. 441 (also earlier names, but only based 

 one on larger and the otlier on slenderer cones). 



A tree peculiar to tlu' sva-ooast from Pescailero, south of San Fiancisco, to Monterey and San 

 Simeon Bay, and known as tiie "iMonteruy Pine." Much interest attaclu-s to the species, not only 

 on account of its vapi.l growth and beautifully fresh green foliage, which make, it ornamental in 

 cultivation, but also beeause it is probably the old P. Califuvniaaa, which has never been iden- 

 tified but was saiil to have come from Monterey and to resemble in its cones the Mediterranean 

 P. Pinaster and in its large seeds P. Ccmbra, such as we do not tind near that town. P. Sin- 

 ciairii, Hook, k Arn., Bot. Beech. 392, t. 93, is a factitious species founded upon a cone of P. 

 MoaffZHincv {h-i>u\ Tepic) and the foliage of P. insi,jnis, while P. radiala of the .same authors, 

 1. c. 392 and 443, is made up of the foliage of the lormer species and cone of the latter, as is 

 jiroven by the specimens in Herb. Kew. A variety, binata, has l)een collected by Dr. I'almer on 

 Guadalupe Island, with tint normal cones of i'. insiijnis but the leaves in pairs. 



13. P. tuberculata, Cordon. A small tree, 3 to 20 or exceptionally 30 to 40 

 feet higli, h to 1 loot ill tliametcr, with a loosely branched conical top and tliin lighl- 

 l)ro\vn'i-oiigliish bark : leaves 3 or usually 4 to 7 inches long, I to I lino wide, slightly 

 and distantly serrulate ; sheaths at lirst'C) lines long ; bracts slightly fringed : male 

 llowers in an elongated spike, cylindrical, 7 to i) lines long, with G involucral bracts, 

 the outer not much shorter than the inner ones ; anthers crested : cones in verticils 

 of 2 to 4, several of which often form on the same year's shoot, pale leather-brown, 

 at last silver-gray, persisting for many years often without opening, peduncled, 

 strongly rellexed, 3 to 5 inches long by 1^ to 2 inches thick, conic-cylindrical, 

 pointed, very oblicpie at base ; outer scales much enlarged conically, angular, the 

 inner Hat, all with sharp prickles : seeds black, grooved, 3 lines long ; wing 7 or 8 

 lines long, widest at or above the middle: cotyledons 5 to 8. — Tin. 211 ; Parlat. 

 1. c. 394.'^ P. CaUfornica, Ilartw. Journ. Ilort. Soc. ii. 18'J. 



On the Coast Eana'es from San Bernardino and the Santa Lucia Mountains to the Shasta re- 

 crion, and here and tliere on the foothills of the Siena Nevada (Forest Hill, between the loiks ot 

 the American River, at 2,500 feet altitude, Bolundcr). This Californiaii Scrub Pme is a small 

 and unsi'ditly tree or bush, which on the east side of Mount Shasta is found tuU ot cones when 

 only 2 oi°3 feet hi'di {Brewer). The name /'. tahereuUita, originally given to a lonn of the last 

 species, was transferred to this after Jeffrey's discoveries in lSr.2, and having been so used invaria- 

 bly since should still be retained, inasmuch as Hartwcg's name ol ( \ilijnr,ncu, though much o der, 

 was applied only through a mistaken identification of the species with Loisclcurs idant above 

 mentioned, and must therefore be dropped. 



++ ++ Leaves ill pairs. 

 14. P. muricata, Don, 1. c. A middle-sized tree, 25 to 50 or rarely 80 to 120 feet 

 high,'m()stly slender (1 or 2 or ran^y 3 feet thick), with reddish-brown roughish 

 ba°k'and a patulous top : leaves rigid, 4 to G inches long, I to 1 line broad, strongly 

 serrulate ; bracts lightly fringed, subpersistent ; sheaths U lines long, at length re- 

 duced to 1 line : male ilowers oval, 6 to 8 lines long, in spikes an inch long ; invo- 

 lucre half as long as the Howers, of 6 or 8 bracts, the outer as long as the inner : 

 cones sessile, sjireading or more or less recurved, in chusters of 4 to 7, often remain- 

 ing closed and long-persistent, ovate and very oblitjue, chestnut-brown, 2 to 'i\ 

 (usually 3) inches long and 1^ to 2 inches thick; i)rickles short and stout or (in the 

 southern form) making long straightish or incurved spurs on the outside : seeds 3 

 lines long, grooved and rough, black ; wing G to 8 lines long, widest above the 

 middle : cotyledons 4 or 5. — Torr. 1. c, t. 54. /'. I'JdjnrUuui, llartw. 1. c. iii. 217. 

 Only near the coast, where it is exposed to the sea win<ls and fogs, to an altitude of 2,000 feet, 

 from Mendocino, where it grows tallest (in peat-bogs), to Tomales I'oint (in the most sterile soil) 

 Monterey and San Luis Obispo, hi many respects similar to the last, but iva.lily di.slinguished 

 by the leaves being in pair.s and by the short thick cones. The si.eeiniens collected at Tomales 

 Yomt {Brewer, Bulandcr) hsiVe suijterminal cones, but .seem to dilfcr m no other respect. Ihe 

 cones are said to persist over 30 years. 



