34 Illustrations of Conifers. 



PINUS BALFOURIANA {Balfour). Foxtail Pink. 



Oregon Exped. Report, p. 1, t. 8, f. 1 (1858). 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. V. p. 882 (1876) with fig. 

 Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 818 (1900). 

 Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. V. p. 1054 (1910). 



A tree attaining in California a height of 30 to 90 feet with a 

 girth of 6 to 15 feet. Bark of young stems thin, smooth and 

 whitish, becoming on old trunks | inch thick, dark reddish- 

 brown and much fissured. Young branchlets stout, yellowish-brown, 

 covered with a minute pubescence. Buds ovoid, about \ inch long, 

 with closely appressed scales. 



Leaves in fives, densely crowded on the branchlets, incurved, 

 rigid, about 1| inches long, sharp-pointed, entire in margin, shin- 

 ing green on the back, white with lines of stomata on the inner 

 surfaces ; sheath membranous, splitting into five segments, which 

 become reflexed and form a rosette around the base of the leaf 

 cluster. 



Cones sub-terminal, spreading, sessile, cylindric-conic, 3^ to 

 5 inches long : scales narrow, elongated ; apophysis convex, rhom- 

 boidal, transversely keeled, with a minute incurved prickle. Seed 

 about } inch long ; with a narrow wing, about 1 inch long. 



As a native tree Pinus Balfouriana is confined to the mountains 

 of California, occurring at elevations of 5,000 to 12,000 feet, and 

 attaining its largest size in the southern Sierra Nevada. It was 

 discovered on Scott Mountain in 1852 by Jeffrey. It is rare in 

 cultivation. 



The photograph represents a native specimen from the Museum 

 at Kew. 



