CHAP. XIII. 



PI N NUS. 



2291 



Properties and Uses. The resin, Douglas observes, " which exudes from 

 the trees of P. Lambertw/?#, when they are partly burned, loses its 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. I have, since my return, been 

 informed by Mr. Menzies, that, when he was on the coast of California with 

 Captain Vancouver, in 1793, seeds of a large pine, resembling those of the 

 stone pine, were served at the dessert by the Spanish priests resident there. 

 These were, no doubt, the produce of the species now noticed. The vernacular 

 name of it in the language of the Umptqua Indians, is ndt-cleh." (7AzW., p. 499.) 



1 42. P. (S.) MONTI'COLA Doug/. The Mountain, or short-leaved Wey- 



mouth, Pine. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin. 



ed. 2., vol. 2., after P. 



Sabinidna, 3. t. 87. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., 



3. t. 87., and our figs. 



2208. and 2209., from 



Douglas's specimens in 



the herbarium of the 



Horticultural Society. 



Spec. Charac.y fyc. 

 Leaves in fives, 

 short, smoothish, 

 obtuse. Cones 

 cylindrical, and 

 smooth ; scales 

 loose, pointed. 

 (Z>. Dow.) Buds, 

 in the plant in the 

 London Horti- 

 cultural Society's 

 Garden, small, re- 

 sembling those of 

 P, Lambertiana. 

 Leaves from 3 Jin. 

 to 4 in. long, with- 

 out the sheaths. 

 Cone, from Dou- 

 glas's specimen, 

 7 in. long, and 

 If in. broad; ra- 

 ther obtuse at 

 the point; scales 

 fin. broad at the 

 widest part, and 

 from If in. to 

 2 in. long, and 

 covered with re- 

 sin. Seed small, 

 -^ in. long, and 

 T Vin. broad; with 

 the wing, 1 in. 

 long, and in. 

 broad. Cotyle- 

 dons ? A native 

 of the high moun- 

 tains, at the Grand 

 Rapids of the Co- 

 lumbia ; and in 

 California, on the 



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