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spreading, semi-terete and deeply-channeled, mucronate and subacute, 

 scarcely roughish on the margin ; cones 1-4, verticillate, 1-2' long, 10-15" 

 wide, ovoid, suhobtuse, straight or curved, persistent ; scales 3-4" wide, with 

 a shining pyramidal 4-sided summit, the transverse ridge acute, mucronate 

 with a deciduous straightish or incurved spine. — On the coast from Northern 

 Cahfornia to Sitka. Var. latifolia, Eng., in litt. The mountain form, with 

 broader leaves, extending eastward to Colorado, and said to attain a height 

 of 40-60°. It was seen only in the Uintas, at an altitude of 7-8,000 feet, 

 not over 20° high, rather slender, with a somewhat scaly grayish-brown bark ; 

 known as "Red Pine." The specimens show numerous sessile sterile aments, 

 4-5" long, the anther-crest semi-orbicular with a torn or irregular mar- 

 gin. The mucro upon the scales of the cones is frequently 1 J" long; 

 bracts persistent, thickened ; seed 2" long, oval, dark-colored, wing 3 times 

 longer. (1,110.) 



PiNUS PONDEEOSA, Dougl. DC. Prodr. 16. 2. 395. Tall, with wide- 

 spreading or subpendulous branches ; bud-scales lanceolate, acuminate ; 

 sheaths rather long ; leaves in threes, usually long, 4-10', and |-1" broad, 

 clustered at the ends of the stout and rigid branchlets, erect or spreading, 

 rather rigid, scabrous on the margin, -somewhat sharply mucronate ; sterile 

 aments numerous, fascicled, cylindrical, with suborbicular crenate-dentate 

 crests ; cones usually 3-4, short-peduncled and subpendulous, 3-6' long, 

 1^2' wide, conic or conic-cylindric, straight ; scales 1-1^' long, 6-9" wide, 

 the subrhombic summit elevated, radiately cracked, the transverse ridge acute, 

 the mucro stout, sharp, and recurved ; bracts persistent, thickened ; seed 

 oval, 3-5" long, the wing oblong, obtuse, 1' long. — New Mexico to California, 

 and northward to Colorado and Washington Territory. Washoe Mountains, 

 Nevada, and in the Uintas ; 5-8,000 feet altitude ; known as " Yellow Pine." 

 Bark light-red, yellowish-brown within, thick, cracking irregularly and 

 cleaving into small very irregularly shaped scales. The sterile aments are 

 described as 1' long or more ; none of those in the collection exceed half an 

 inch. (1,111.) 



PiNUS Balfoueiana, Murr. Gordoris Pinetum, p. 211. A middle- 

 sized tree, with pendulous or spreading branches, often short and twisted ; 

 bud-scales oblong-lanceolg,te, acuminate, persistent; sheaths of numerous 

 oblong fringed scales, soon squarrose or caducous ; leaves mostly in fives, 

 densely crowded and often covering the branches, long-persistent, 1-14' long, 



