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p. 417.) Known as “White Pine.” Dr. Parry found it “composing 
almost the entire forest growth of the mountain slopes of Middle Park 
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purplish-brown color, full be tannin. The wood is remarkably white 
and soft, free from knot and scarcely resinous, preferred for inside 
3 kA tall tree, 60°-100° high, becoming much dwarfed at higher 
elevations, pyra amidal ; branches verticillate, lower horizontal, the upper 
ascending, branchlets puberalent; bark light- eae wood soft, white; 
leaves solitary, crowde every way, sho , curved or straight, 
rigid, cOmpréssed 4- Te ce short-mu eb eRy smooth on the au gles, 
white- -punctate on the sides beneath the green; sterile aments thick, 
ovate or ovate-cylindrical, obtuse, nearly Sea the leaves; anthe- 
tiferous bracts almost orbicular, dentate- -fimbriate, pe ate- cylinenion 
obtuse; scales numerous, imbricated, subcartilaginous, obovate, rhom 
bic, subtr uncate or emarginate crenulate- eroded ; bracts ovate-oblon 
obtusish, irregularly psi 3 times shorter than the scale; seeds iad 
oval, conv ex on both sides, 14 times shorter than iG obovate wing ; cones 
24-3) 0 be | 13 boat purplish. brown when mature; nutlets brown, 
With an Palio 8 iolet wing. Closely “allie 
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ed ” of the East, —Hall & Harbour ; Parry; Coates Bas ; — 
verticillate, spreading, upper ones ascending ; leaves solita ary, crowded, 
turned every way, short, curved or straight, rigid, thickish, compressed, 
4-angled, mucronate- -pungent, marked 01 each side of the prominent 
verve with a white (Selina we sterile ee ra thick, oblong, obtuse, 
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612" long ; fertile peer chiode calineneioal obtuse, curving ; cones 
Solitary or somewhat clustered, subsess ile , Subnodding, eylindrieal Or 
oval, obtuse, 24/-5’ long 12-15" w ride light- brown, obtuse ; seales thin, 
aq wide, oval or sub-rhombie, more or less elongated above, obtuse 
or subemarginate and ero sf -dentate; bracts small; seeds a a ‘long; 
wing obovate, oblong, obtuse, 4/’-6” long, pale. —Known as “ Balsam.” 
Pp ites «3 — shaped tree, though of rather stiff dhtline, of rapid 
growth ; wood very compact, but rather coarse-grained and pitchy ; the 
logs t taper too saphily to saw up to advantage. ” Cones pendulous from 
the ends of the branches ; ; leaves stouter than in any tle allied SA aes 
sae wg Ma poalegimont spinescent.—Hall & Harbour, 533 ; Hoopes 
oulter ; Port 
am _ Anms GRANDIs, Lindl. (Pinus, Parl. DC. Prod., 16,./. ¢., p. 427.) pe 
Pyramidal, with horizontal branches; leaves 6-18” long, 1” broad, 
 wMerous, in o rows, spreading or erect, rigid, straight or ‘curved, mo ote oF 
less contracted and twisted above the base, obtuse or emarginate, green 
3 "phtahg above, strongly keeled and laucous beneath ; cones 
a reenish ; scales 
road-cuneate 
eter nse Ske pouiilag upper mat ran sub: reflexed and usually 
my pubescent, a hie Grogan Gr cicontate tooth e om oF [mu 
sts; seed 3” 
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or : Seoinal wood fine-grained and sts be ne n Colorado. 
iain Cafion and Glen Byrie, Porter. Parry “nprr+c— 
Yo? '<" SyXOPSIS OF THE FLORA OF COLORADO. tor 
Iks DoveLasu, Lindl. (Pinus, Parl.. DC. Prod., 16, l.¢., p. 430.) A 
S Menzrest, Lindl. (Pinus, Parl. DC. , 16, 1, ¢ 
tail Bi , attaining a height of 100 feet, straight, py prasndals Pata ba pp sg 
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