FOUR-LEAF OR PARRY PINE 



Pinus quadri folia SUD WORTH. 



BARK Thin, shallowly fissured into flat ridges, scales 



few or none, dark reddish-brown. 

 LEAVES In fascicles of 4, sometimes 3 to 5, 1^4 to 



1% inches long, pale green, somewhat scattered on 



the twigs, persisting from 3 to 5 years. 

 CONE Brown and shining, 1% to 2 inches long, scales 



without spines. 



Probably this is the least frequently 

 seen and known of all our pines; first, 

 because it is so often confused with the 

 single-leaf pinyon which it in many 

 ways so closely resembles ; and second, 

 because of the remoteness of the locali- 

 ties where it grows. The northern limitof 

 this hermit tree is Cahuilla Valley and 

 the very southernmost portions of the 

 San Jacinto Mountains, where a single 

 tree stands close to the road on the Nig- 

 ger Jim Grade between Ken worthy and 

 Cahuilla. It also occurs sparingly in 

 desolate Coyote Canyon, on the bleak 

 sides of Toro Mountain in the Santa 

 Rosa Range, and on south into Lower 

 California. 



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