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PART III. 



* 41. P. (S.) LA.MBEUTIA^NA Dougl. The gigantic, or Lambert's, Pine. 



Identification. Dougl. in Lin. Trans , 15. p. 500. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 34. ; Lawson's Manual 



P. 361. ; Lodd. Cat, ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 34. ; our fig. 2206., to our usual scale ; and figs. 2203. to 2205., 



of the natural size ; the cone and scale from Douglas's specimens in the Horticultural Society's 

 herbarium, and the buds and leaves from the tree in the Horticultural Society's Garden. 



Spec. Char., &c. Leaves in fives, rigid, 

 roughish ; sheaths very short. Cones 

 thick, very long, cylindrical ; scales loose, 

 roundish. (Douglas.) Buds, in the spe- 

 cimen from the Horticultural Socie- 

 ty's Garden, ^ in. long, and | in. 

 broad; roundish, pointed, and with 

 3 smaller buds. (See fig. 2203.) 

 Leaves 2|in. to 3 in. long; in 

 Douglas's specimens, 4^ in. and 

 5 in. long. Cones from 14 in. to 

 16 in. long, and said to be some- 

 times 18 in. long, and 4 in. in 

 diameter in the widest part ; 

 scales 1 in. wide, and nearly 2 in. 

 2203 long. Seed large, oval, ^in. long, 

 and nearly f in. broad ; dark brown : 

 wing dark brown, and, with the seed, 

 If in. long, and | in. broad in the widest 

 part. Native of the north-west coast of 

 North America, where it was discovered 

 by Dpujlas ; and introduced into Eng- 

 land in 1827. 



Description. According to Douglas, " the trunk of P. Lambertiana grows 

 from 150 ft. to above 200 ft. in height, varying from 20 ft. to near 60 ft. in cir- 

 cumference. One specimen, which had been blown down by the wind, and which 

 was certainly not the largest, was of the following dimensions : Its entire 

 length was 215 ft.; its circumference, at 3 ft. from the ground, was 57 ft. 9 in., 

 and at 134 ft. from the ground, 17 ft. 5 in. The trunk is unusually straight, and 



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