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APPENDIX VIII 



SOME AMERICAN PINES 



[At the time when thia volume had already been pronounced ready for the press, 

 one of the Society's officers, engaged in tuuming out a very old packing-case, which 

 had apparently not been opened since the Society moved from South Kensington 

 in 1887, came upon two manuscripts, which, on careful e;xamination, proved to be 

 in David Douglas' handwriting, and, as far as can be judged, are of about the same 

 date as the other manuscripts from which the rest of this volume has been printed. 

 It was at once decided to delay the issue of the volume a few weeks in order that 

 these newly discovered manuscripts might be included. 



Ab is the case with much of the previous part of this Volume there are two distinct 

 manuscripts covering precisely the same ground, but in which one will from time 

 to time contain a few words or a sentence which does not occur in the other. These 

 Manuscripts have been most carefully compared and collated with the following 

 result. As with the preceding parts of the Volume the original expressions have been 

 scrupulously retained even at the cost, in places, of grammatical accuracy and clearness 

 of meaning.— W. W., Ed.] 



1. Pinus Douglasii.i Foliis solitariis plants subdistichis, strobilis ovaiis 

 pendulis, bracteolis exsertis, S-cuspidatis. Sabine in Trans. Hort. Soc. Vol.2 



Flowers in April and May, fruit ripe in September. 



Leaves solitary, flat, entire, imperfectly two -ranked, blunt at the 

 apex, dark shining green above, glaucous underneath, about an inch long. 

 Common filament erect, shorter than the bractea. Another reniform, 

 inflated, destitute of a crest, having instead a blunt, short entire point. 

 Bractea nearly round, concave, densely ciliated or fringed. Female cat- 

 kin erect, sessile, oblong or elliptic, one inch long, of a bright pink colour. 

 Bractea hnear-oblong, ciUate, tricuspidate, persistent, very long. Cone 

 sessile, ovate, pointed, pendulous in clusters at the extremities of the 

 twigs, two to two and a half inches long, one and a half of an inch in 

 diameter. Scales orbicular, ciUate, slightly notched near the base, entire 

 at the apex, soft and velvety to the touch, fuscous, the bractea of a glossy 

 reddish tint and exserted beyond the scale five-eighths of an inch. 



Seeds small, pointed at the base, widening upwards, brown, wing 

 pointed, broad and large in proportion to the seed. 



Tree remarkably tall, unusually straight, having the pyramidal form 

 peculiar to the Abies tribe of Pines. The trees which are interspersed in 

 groups or standing sohtary in dry upland, thin, gravelly soUs or on rocky 

 situations, are thickly clad to the very ground with widespreading pendent 

 branches, and from the gigantic size which they attain in such places and 



^ Pseudotsuga DmigUsii, Mast, in Journ. R. Hort. Soc. xiv. p 245 

 Vol ' buUn°none rr' ''"T^ ""''1^!° o^'"' '^^S" *° 'Sabine in lians. Hort. Soc. 

 ^ Mr Sabine's ocC^r th! T'i '"'' °,! • ''^ ^u"''^'*^'^ Transactions does any such entry 

 ?be i^V„n«n„ ' ^ ^i^^ence being that it was intended to pubUsh it, but that 

 the intention was never carried out. Ed. t- """=" ", uui luat 



