228 CONIFER.E. Finns. 



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 the sea-coast from Pescadero, south of San Francisco, to Monterey and San 

 Simeon Bay, and known as the "Monterey Pine." Much interest attaches to the species, not only 

 on account'of its rapid growth and beautifully fresh green foliage, which make it ornamental in 

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

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

 P. Pinaster and in its huge seeds P. Cembra, such as we do not find near that town. P. Sin- 

 clairii, Hook. & Arn., Bot. Beech. 392, t. 93, is a factitious s]iecies founded upon a cone of P. 

 Montezumce (from Tepic) and the foliage of P. insignis, while P. radiata of the same autliois, 

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

 ])roven by the specimens in Herb. Kew. A variety, hinata, has been collected by Dr. Palmer on 

 Guadalupe Island, with the normal cones of P. insignis but the leaves in pairs. 



13. P. tuberculata, Gordon. A small tree, 3 to 20 or excei)tionally 30 to 40 

 feet higli, | to 1 foot in tliameter, with a loosely branched conical top and thin liglit- 

 brown roughish bark : leaves 3 or usually 4 to 7 inches long, ^ to | line wide, sliglitly 

 and distantly serrulate ; sheaths at lirst 6 lines long ; bracts slightly fringed : male 

 flowers in an elongated spike, cylindrical, 7 to 9 lines long, with 6 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 reflexed, 3 to 5 inches long by If to 2 inches thick, conic-cylindrical, 

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

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

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

 1. c. 394. P. Calif arnica, Hartw. Journ. Hort. Soc. ii. 189. 



On the Coast Ranges from San Bernardino and the Santa Lucia Mountains to the Shasta re- 

 gion, and here and there on the foothills of the Sierra Nevada (Forest Hill, between the forks of 

 the American River, at 2,500 feet altitude, Bolandcr). This Californian Scrub Pine is a small 

 and unsightly tree or bush, which on the east side of Mount Shasta is found full of cones when 

 only 2 or 3 feet high {Brewer). The name P. tuberculata, originally given to a form of the last 

 species, was transferred to this after Jeffrey's discoveries in 1852, and having been so used invaria- 

 bly since should still be retained, inasmuch as Hartweg's name of Californica, though much older, 

 was applied only through a mistaken identification of the species with Loiseleur's ulant above 

 mentioned, and must therefore be dropped. 



•H- -H- Leaves in pairs. 



14. P. muricata, Don, 1. c. A middle-sized tree, 2.5 to 50 or rarely 80 to 120 feet 

 high, mostly slender (1 or 2 or rarely 3 feet thick), with reddish-brown roughish 

 bark and a patulous top : leaves rigid, 4 to 6 inches long, | to 1 line broad, strongly 

 serrulate ; bracts lightly fringed, subpersistent \ sheaths 9 lines long, at length re- 

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

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

 cones sessile, spreading or more or less recurved, in clusters of 4 to 7, often remain- 

 ing closed and long-persistent, ovate and very oblique, chestnut-brown, 2 to 3-| 

 (usually 3) inches long and 1| to 2 inches thick; prickles 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 6 to 8 lines long, widest above the 

 middle : cotyledons 4 or 5. — Torr. 1. c, t. 54. P. Edgariana, Hartw. 1. c. iii. 217. 



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

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

 Monterey and San Luis Obispo. In many res])ects similar to the last, but readily distinguished 

 by the leaves being in i)airs and by the short thick cones. The specimens collected at Tomales 

 Point {Brnver, Bolander) have subtermiual cones, but seem to differ in no other respect. The 

 cones are said to persist over 30 years. 



