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trees; some of them have the external, basal scales 

 abnormally developed as conical tubercles tipped 

 with a strong prickle; others are tubercled only at 

 the end of the cone; others still are tubercled on the 

 outer side, from end to end. The southernmost trees 

 (near Mendocino) often become quite large 25 to 

 50 feet high, and 2 to 3 feet thick, the bark 2 to 3 

 inches thick. 



This is the northernmost of the four species of sea- 

 loving, fog-nurtured, aggressive, fighting pines of our 

 western shore, from Alaska to San Diego. Pressing 

 along the promontories too near the sea, they are beaten 

 almost prostrate by ocean gales and become close-set, 

 round-shouldered, flat-headed, many-limbed trees with 

 dense foliage, offering long reaches of wind-breaks, 

 behind which hosts of tender plants from the interior 

 flourish and flaunt their profusion of flowers in serene 

 security. 



BOLANDEU'S PINE. Var. (a) Bolanderi, Lemmon. 

 P. Bolanderi. Parlat. Prod, xvi, p. 379. 



A dwarfed form, 4 to 15 feet in height; spire- 

 shaped, with short, narrow, light-colored leaves an 

 inch long, and small, variable cones (varying on the 

 same tree, like those of the typical form), the size 

 and color of tree in striking contrast to the dark 

 green foliage of the typical species found abundantly 

 on the near-by coast. On the white, ashy, narrow, 

 almost sterile "Plains" paralleling the coast at Men- 



