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Railroad Hep. 6, (Bot.) р. 44, cum ic. zylog. non Гисс. (Taste LIII.) On the mountains east 
of San Diego; Parry. ** A tree 30 or 40 feet high, and often 12 to 18 inches in diameter, with 
& round, even head. The young trees remarkably symmetrical, like some cedars, with the 
broad base resting on the ground, the trunk and branches being completely hidden by the 
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dense foliage. The upper branches are usually loaded with cones." The leaves are mostly in 
fours, but sometimes in threes, and often in fives. They are crowded towards the summit of the 
branches, 14 to 2 inches long, and a little curved. Cones about 2 inches long, globose-ovate, 
disposed near the extremity of the last year's growth, and are at a right angle to the branch. 
They are often somewhat gibbous, the convexity being upward. The scales are few, with the 
summit obtusely pyramidal. Seeds obovate, wingless, large for the size of the cone, with a thin 
fragile shell, and an edible kernel. The Indians collect large quantities of them for food. 
When fresh and slightly roasted they are very palatable. There can be little doubt of this 
being distinct from the Pinus cembroides of Mexico. The leaves of the latter are shorter and 
constantly in threes, (and the cones are three or four times Jarger, with much more numerous 
scales. 
PONDEROSA, Dougl.; Newberry, l. с. p. 36, cum ic. zylog. Р. Engelmanni, Torr. in Bot. 
Whipp. Hep. p. 141. P. brachyptera, Engelm. in Wisliz. Rep. p. 89. Mountains near the 
Copper Mines, New Mexico. The leaves in some of the specimens are ten inches long. Dr. 
Newberry, who had abundant opportunity of studying the forest trees of New Mexico, California, 
and Oregon, in their native place of growth, has clearly shown (as we think) that P. brachyptera, 
Engelm., is identical with the earlier published P. ponderosa, Douglas, to which species he also 
refers P. Benthami, Hartw., and P. Beardsleyi, Murr. in Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 1855, p. 286. 
Prsus murtcata, D. Don in Linn. Trans. 17, p. 441; Lindl. in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. 4, p. 
216, cum ic. zylog. P. Edgariana, Hartw. l. c. 3, p. 211. (Taste LIV.) Near Monterey, 
California; Parry А small tree, seldom more than 15 or 20 feet high. Leaves of a deep vivid 
green. Our cones (which are, perhaps, not quite mature) are smaller than the one қабаты іп 
the Hort. Trans. 1. с. 
PINUS eem AM Engelm. in Wisliz. Вер. p. 103? Hills at the Copper Mines, New. 
Mexico; Bigelow. (No. 1888, Wright.) Our specimens accord well with Dr. Engelmann's 
шинж except that the apex of the scale, instead of being pointless, is armed with a small 
recurved prickle; but this is very fragile, and may have been rubbed off in the specimens 
collected by Wislizenus. The cones (not mature) are conical-ovate, rather pointed, about 2 
inches long, and an inch and a quarter near the base. The leaves are remarkably slender, 
Pinus ixsraxis, Dougl. in Loud. Arboret. 4, р. 2265, fig. 2170-2172; Torr. in Whipp. Rep. p. 
141. P. tuberculata and P. radiata, D. Don.—(Tab. LV.)—Near Monterey, California; Parry, 
Hartweg remarks (Hort. Jour. 2, p. 123) that in close woods, a mile or two from the shore, the 
leaves and cones are much larger than when the tree grows near the beach. Cones usually 3 
or 4 together, and pendulous. They are > almost always imperfect on one side, and thus are 
more or less gibbous. 
Pinus DEFLEXA (n. -вр.): foliis sas longissimis(7 Bune. ) tenuibus, vaginis brevibus; strobilis 
atis; sqt n apophysi compresso-p ta deflexa, umbone lato-uncinato recurvo; 
semir eri sis hn plo b ioribus. (Tab. LVI.) Summit of the Cordilleras of California; Parry, 
“A handsome s tree, with s ап етеп ae trunk.” This e ja oly allied to P. us 
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