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Bays, particularly abundant on Point Pinos, on which 

 the city of Pacific Grove has arisen. Trees of gen- 

 eral spire-shape, with limbs retained if removed from 

 the sea, but gnarled and brow-beaten if near the 

 beach. Largest trees 80 to 100 feet high, with black 

 bark, very hard, and 2 to 3 inches thick. Foliage 

 bright green, leaves in 3's, 4 to 6 inches long; cones 

 chestnut-brown, widely variable, obliquely oval or 

 longer, 3 to 7 inches long, 2 to 4 inches thick at base, 

 scales on the outer side, especially at the base in the 

 larger form, swelled out into nearly hemispherical 

 tubercles or knobs one-quarter to one-half inch high, 

 and twice as broad, becoming devoid of prickles. 



Largely cultivated for its abundant foliage, great endur- 

 ance, and its rapid-growing character like all the sea- 

 nurtured species, the annual layers of wood J to an inch 

 thick being not uncommon. The largest form of this 

 species is the proper Knob-Cone Pine, and not the next 

 species (P. attenuata), with its narrow, long cone, and 

 conically developed scales. The Monterey Pine is re- 

 markable as the earliest discovered pine of the west, the 

 one described under the name of Pinus Californiana, by 

 the botanist of the Perouse expedition, 1787, it having 

 been collected "At Monte del Rey, near the sea." 



VARIETIES OF MONTEREY PINE. 

 SMALL-CONED MONTEREY PINE. Var. (a) tuberculata, 

 Lemmon.* 



Pinus. tuberculata, Don. 1837. 



Trees mingled with the large-coned form, orchoos- 

 * New variety, not before published. 



