ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 



331 



ridges coveied with small appressed scales; branchlets stout, glaucous: leaves 



slender, flexible, pale bluish-green, 8-12 inches long: cones pendent on about 



2-inch-long stalks, oblong-ovoid, light red-brown, 6-10 inches long; apophysis 



pyramidal, sharply keeled, narrowed into a stout, incurved, spiny hook, the 



lower scales much reflexed and 



armed with a spur-like incurved 



spine; seed ^i inch long, its wing 



about half as long as seed. 



Western California. — Introduced 



to Great Britain m 1832 by D. 



Douglas. Hardy probably as 



far north as the Middle Atlantic 



States. Very distinct pine of 



loose habit and with sparse and 



long pale foliage. The seeds are 



edible. 



49. P. Torreyana, Carr. Tor- 



REY P. (SOLEDAD P.). Fig. 95. 



Plate XLIII. Tree to 40 or 

 under favorable conditions in 

 cultivation to 90 feet tall, with 

 spreading and sometimes ascend- 

 ing branches; bark deeply and 

 irregularly fissured into broad 

 flat ridges covered with ap- 

 pressed, light, red-brown scales; 

 winter-buds conic-ovoid, pale 

 brown, scales with appressed tips and white, fimbriate, interlaced margins; 

 branchlets greenish or purplish, bloomy, glabrous: leaves rigid, dark green, 

 8-13 inches long: cones broadly ovoid, 4-G inches long, chocolate-brown; 

 apophysis low-pyramidal; umbo elongated and reflexed with short spiny 

 tip; seeds ^ inch long, with a short wing about half as long as the seed. 

 Southern California. — A small tree of irregular habit, little known in 

 cultivation. 



inus Torreyana. 



