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PRACTICAL FOKESTBY. 



Chapman and Mr. Gordon, of England, recognize the variety 

 as a distinct species. 



P. Sabiniana, Dougl. Sabine's Pine, Great Prickly-Coned Pine. 

 Leaves in threes, eight to twelve inches long, slender-droop- 

 ing, of a light glaucous-green color. Cones eight to ten inches 

 long, and four to six in diameter, of a deep mahogany -brown 

 color, with large, projecting incurved points. Seed large, 

 almost an inch long, sub-cylindric, with a hard, dark brown 

 shell, and a stiff wing, only about a half inch long, with a stiff 



Fig. 58. PINUS SABINIANA. 



rim. A large, round-topped tree, with thick, rough bark, and 

 rather slender, graceful branchlets. Seed used as food by the 

 Indians, but are not so pleasant tasted as those of P. edulis. A 

 large tree, fifty to a hundred feet high, and stem two to four 

 feet in diameter. Wood white, soft, rather even-grained, but 

 contains a large amount of resin. Inhabits California in the 

 Coast Ranges, and the foot hills of the Sierra Nevadas, up to an 

 altitude of about four thousand feet. Like most of the Pines 

 from the Coast Ranges of California, this species does not thrive 

 in the climate of our Northern Atlantic States, but will proba- 



