22 WEST-AMERICAN 



" I rejoice to tell you of the discovery of a new species 

 of Pine, the most princely of the genus, perhaps even 

 the grandest specimen of vegetation known.'' 



Douglas also reported: ''The trees yield a sweetish 

 substance, which I am almost afraid to say is sugar." It 

 is this saccharine, soluble gum, exuding scantily from 

 injured trees, that suggested the name, "Sugar Pine " 



PURPLE-CONED SUGAR PINE. Var. purpurea. n. var.* 

 A smaller form, with darker, finer checked bark 

 and different wood well known to lumbermen and 

 with shorter, purplish cones, less attenuate towards 

 the ends than the typical species, often accompanies 

 it in* the high Sierra, and may receive the above names. 



No. 2 Mountain Pine - ^ monticola, Dougl. 

 Smaller, lighter-barked trees than the preceding; 

 in subalpine regions of the Sierra, but northward in 

 Oregon, Washington, and Montana, found at lower 

 elevations, as is common with other trees that are al- 

 pine in southern situations; cones narrow, 6 to 12 

 inches long; scales thin, weak, reflexed at maturity. 

 In some localities called " Little Sugar Pine." 

 FINGER-CONE PINE. Var. digitata. n. var.* 

 A small form, with thicker, darker bark, and clus- 

 ters of small cones not larger than a man's fingers, 

 found near the coast, from Northern California to 

 British Columbia, may receive the above name. 



*New varieties not, before published. 



