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the tree seldom attains a height of more than twenty feet, or 

 eight or ten inches in diameter, but is very branching, and has 

 a peculiar but pleasant odour when bruised. It is perfectly 

 hardy, for Colonel Fremont frequently found the thermometer 

 at two degrees below zero at night, and four feet of snow, 

 where it grew. The cones are produced in great abundance, 

 and the seeds are gathered by the Indians for their principal 

 winter and spring subsistence ; either taken out and kept dry 

 in their huts, or left in their natural storehouse, the cones in 

 heaps under the trees, where they remain tolerably dry until 

 wanted for use ; the Indians are said to live upon them alone 

 for months and months without any other kind of food. 



Dr. Torrey first gave the name of Pinus monophylla to this 

 pine, from a supposition that the leaves were mostly solitary : 

 but Professor Endlicher, who afterwards examined more perfect 

 specimens, found that the leaves were in twos and threes, and 

 that the solitary leaves arose from Dr. Torrey's specimens 

 being either gathered from young trees, or very stunted ones ; 

 he consequently altered Dr. Torrey's name of " monophyUa" to 

 that of Fremontiana, in compliment to Colonel Fremont, its 

 first discoverer. 



It is the thin-shelled edible pine of the Californians, and is 

 an article of commerce with the Indians, when in season, under 

 the name of " Nut Pine." It is quite hardy, but a very slow 

 growing kind. 



Mr. Jeffrey found it on Mount Jefferson, in the Cascade 

 B.ange, at an elevation of 6500 feet, growing on a red sandstone 

 soU, a tree twenty feet high, and ten inches in diameter. 



No. 8. Pinus Halepensis, Alton, the Aleppo, or Jerusalem Pine. 



Syn. Pinus Hierosolimitana, Bu HaTnel. 

 „ Genuensis, Gooh. 

 „ „ Halepensis minor, Loudon. 



Leaves in twos, but not very unfrequently in threes, of a deep 

 green, two inches and a half to three inches long, thickly 



