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hard, of a light-brown colour, or silvery-gray when old, very 

 glossy, and full of resinous matter; they stand off at nearly 

 right angles when old, although rather pendulous when young, 

 and remain on the tree for years, without even opening or 

 shedding their seeds. Scales largest and most developed at 

 the external base, and down three parts of the outer side of the 

 cone, deeply divided, much elevated, horizontally, and rather 

 conical, particularly those near the base, the largest of which 

 is three-eighths of an inch wide, terminated by a strong, sharp 

 prickle ; but as they approach towards the point of the cone, 

 they become much less elevated, more quadrangular, and 

 blunter pointed : the scales on the inner side of the cone and 

 round the point are very much smaller, and quite flat, with a 

 small, dark-brown prickle in their centre ; each cone contains 

 fifteen or sixteen rows of scales, within each of which are two 

 very small seeds, with wings three-quarters of an inch in 

 length. 



This pine was first discovered by Dr. Coulter, to the south of 

 Monterey, near the level of the sea, and growing almost close to 

 the beach, intermixed with Pinus radiata. Mr. Hartweg found 

 it growing on the Santa Cruz Mountains, sixty miles to the 

 north of Monterey by land. It is a tree of slow growth, and 

 seldom attains more than 30 feet in height, with a trunk eight 

 or ten inches in diameter. Mr. Jeffrey found it at an elevation 

 of 5000 feet, with the cones adhering to the tree ; in several 

 instances with twenty whorls of cones on the trunk, the growth 

 of as many years, — the branches being covered with them in the 

 same way as the trunk. 



The timber is red and hard, and the tree of a conical form, 

 growing about 40 feet high, in poor sandy soil. 



It is quite hardy. 



NEW OK DOUBTFUL KINDS, having the leaves three 



IN A SHEATH, AND OF WHICH NOTHING MORE IS KNOWN. 



No. 56. PiNUS DEFLEXA, Torrey, the Deflexed-scaled Pine. 

 Leaves in threes, slender, and from six to seven inches long, 



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