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ing forty feet in height. Mr. Hartweg found it growing on 

 the western declivity of the mountains near Monterey, and 

 within two miles of the sea-shore, attaining a height of from 

 twenty to thirty feet, and with a trunk twelve inches in dia- 

 meter. In this locality it was confined to a small wood half a 

 mile square, and intermixed with and surrounded by Pinus 

 insignis. Mr. Hartweg again met with it at a considerable dis» 

 tance to the south of Monterey, on the ascent to the Mission of 

 La Purissima, where the monotony of the bare hills was only 

 relieved by a small forest of it; the trees, however, not attaining 

 a larger size than those found growing near Monterey. Mr. 

 Jeffrey found it a tree forty feet high, of a conical form, on the 

 Siskyon Mountains, at an elevation of 7500 feet, growing in 

 moist soil, near the summit of the mountain. It was named 

 P. Murrayana by the Oregon Committee, and P. Edgariana by 

 Hartweg in his Journal. It is the " Obispo," or Bishop's Pine, 

 of the Califomians, and quite hardy. 



No. 16. Pinus Pallasiana, Lambert, the Taurian Pine, 



Syn. Pinus Taurica, Hort, 

 „ „ Laricio Pallasiana, Loudon, 



Leaves in twos, very long, sharp-pointed, erect, rigid, five or 

 six inches long, and channelled above ; smooth, crowded, and 

 of a shining dark green ; sheaths short, half an inch long, 

 covered with scales torn on the margins, and white when 

 young; but dark brown when old. Buds ovate, one inch and a 

 quarter long, and resinous, with the sides hollow. Branches 

 scattered irregularly along the stem, robust and curved up- 

 wards, with some of the lower ones almost equal to the trunk 

 in size. Cones ovate-oblong, tapering to the point, without 

 foot-stalks, often curved near the end, three or four inches long, 

 and one inch and three-quarters broad at the widest part 

 near the base; horizontal or curved downwards, mostly 

 single, or in threes round the branches, and of an ash-gray 

 colour. Scales rhomboid, half an inch broad, slightly elevated. 



