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of San Diego ; Parry. " A tree 30 or 40 feet high, and often 12 to 18 inches in diameter, with 

 a 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 

 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^ 1^ 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 c[uantitles 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 larger, with much more numerous 

 scales. 



Pinus ponderosa, Doityl.; Newherry^ I. c. p. 36, cum ic. xylog. P. Engelmanni, Torr. in Bot. 

 Whipp. Rep. p. 141. P. brachyptera, Engclm. 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.y is identical with the earlier published P. ponderosa, Doug'^as^ to which species he also 

 refers P. Benthami, Hariw.^ and P. Beardsleyi, Mutt, in Edinh. New Fhil. Jour, 1855, p. 286. 



Pinus muricata, Z>. Don in Linn. Trans. 17, p, 441 ; LindL in Jour. Ilort. Soc. Lond. 4, p, 

 216, cum ic. xylog. P. Edgariana^ Hariw. h c. 3, p. 217. (Table LIV.) Near Monterey, 

 California ; Parry A 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 figured in 

 the Hort. Trans. 1. c. 



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Pinus Chihuahuana, Engelm. in Wisliz. Rep. p. 103? Hills at the Copper Mines, New- 

 Mexico ; Bigeloiv, (No. 1888, Wright.) Our specimens accord well with Dr. Engelmann's 



description, 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 ofi* 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 insignis, Dougl. in Loud. Arboref. 4, p. 2265, fig. 2170-2172; Torr. in Whipp. Rep. p. 

 141. P. tuberculata and P. radiata, D. Don. — (Tab. LV.) 

 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 



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oyatisacutis; squamarum apophysi compresso-pyramidata deflexa, umbone lato-uncinato recurve; 

 seminibus ala duplo brevioribus. (Tab, LVI.) Summit of the Cordilleras of California ; Parry. 

 **A handsome tree, with an even columnar trunk." This species is closely allied to P. rigiJa 



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