io66 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



wide, rigid, marked on three sides by stomatic lines, serrulate, ending in a sharp 

 cartilaginous point ; resin-canals median ; basal sheath an inch long. 



Cones sub-terminal, spreading or deflexed, on long stalks, broadly ovoid, 4 to 

 6 in. long; scales thick, 2 in. long, ij in. wide, shining brown; apophysis 

 rhomboidal, transversely ridged, with an elevated pyramidal four-sided acute umbo, 

 with or without a minute prickle. Seed oval, f to i in. long, dull brown and mottled 

 below, pale brown above ; surrounded by a dark brown wing, thickened at the upper 

 margin of the seed, and extending beyond its apex about |- in. 



Masters describes the seedlings, raised at Kew, as robust, with a long tapering 

 radicle, stout cylindrical stem, and twelve linear cotyledons, succeeded by primary 

 leaves, elliptic in section. 



This species is more circumscribed in its distribution than any other pine. It 

 occurs in two localities, the main body growing in a narrow belt, about eight miles 

 long, on the Californian coast, near the mouth of the Soledad river, north of San 

 Diego, nowhere penetrating inland more than a mile and a half. This grove was 

 discovered by Dr. Parry in 1850, whose attention was directed to this pine by J. L. 

 Le Conte, the distinguished entomologist, who was then collecting at San Diego, A 

 single grove, of about one hundred trees, with numerous seedlings, discovered by 

 Brandegee in 1888, also grows on the eastern end of Santa Rosa island,^ on a bluff 

 500 ft. above the level of the sea. These trees average 30 ft. high. 



Miss Sessions of San Diego, who sends us an account of this pine, which was 

 fast disappearing, states that of late steps have been taken, which will ensure its 

 preservation. It grows on the sea-coast, buffeted, twisted, and often prostrated by 

 the ocean winds, and averages 30 to 40 ft. in height. At Del Mar, 22 miles north 

 of San Diego, the South Coast Land Company has bought a large tract, including 

 all the sandstone cliffs and canons leading down to the sea, where the Torrey pines 

 grow in this neighbourhood. The Company has built an hotel, and is protecting all 

 the old pines, and preserving the natural seedlings, and planting in addition. The 

 Torrey Pine Park, which is public property, is on a high and exposed point, south- 

 west of Del Mar ; and here all the trees are carefully guarded. 



William Lobb sent specimens, with cones and seed, to Low's nursery at Clapton 

 in i860, which were described by Lindley^ as P. lophosperma. Plants were reported* 

 to be growing in the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in 1868. It has, however, proved 

 tender there and at Kew, and seems unsuited for cultivation except in warm districts 

 like Cornwall and southern Ireland. The only specimen now living, that we are 

 acquainted with, was planted at Bayfordbury in 1908. Mayr, however, states* that 

 he raised seedlings in Japan, which bore a temperature of - 1 2" Cent, without 

 injury. There are three fairly large trees of this species in the Public Gardens, 

 Christchurch, New Zealand, which bear a few cones.* (A. H.) 



1 Garden and Forest, x. 232 (1897). 2 Card. Chron. i860, p. 46. 



3 Card. Chron. 1868, p. 237. 4 j^a/rf. Nordamer. 276 {1890). 



"^ T. W. Adams, Genus Finns, 10, paper read at Phil. Inst., Canterbury, N.Z., 7th August 1907. 



