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respect. For many years his health was feeble, and he retired to 

 Kew, where his proximity to the Koyal Gardens afforded the means 

 of gratifying his botanical tastes. Besides the work above mentioned, 

 he published a description of the genus Cinchona, and contributed 



many papers to the Transactions of the Lin- 

 ncean Society. After his death his herbarium 

 was sold by public auction, when a small 

 portion of it was purchased for the British 

 Museum.* 



Pinus monticola. — A handsome tree of 

 pyramidal habit ; the trunk is erect, and 

 furnished with whorls of branches that are 

 rather short in proportion to the height of 

 the tree; the bark is smooth and greyish ash- 

 brown. It is a Strobus Pine, having shorter 

 and more rigid foliage than that of the type; 

 the leaves are about 3 inches long, three- 

 angled, with the edges slightly scabrous, the 

 sheaths short and the points blunt ; the outer 

 or rounded side is dark glossy green, the 

 flattened or inner sides are whitish or glau- 

 cescenfc. The cones are from 5 to 6 inches 

 long, tapering to a sharp point, and generally 

 a little curved towards the apex. 



Habitat. — California, Oregon, and Washington 

 territory ; on Trinity Mountain, near the 

 Rapids of the Columbia, and on the rocky 

 banks of the Spokane River, 



Introduced by David Douglas in 1831. 



Pinus monticola is quite hardy, and is a 

 beautiful Pine for the lawn and park. In 

 selecting a situation for it, preference should 

 be given to a south-east or south-west aspect, 

 and a clear space, with a radius of not less 

 than 18 feet should be allowed for it. 



The specific name monticola-, " dwelling on 

 the mountain," refers to the elevated spot in 

 which Douglas first found it. It was, however, subsequently found in 



Si% 11 - Cone of Pinus monticola, 

 Natural size. 



Chiefly from the Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, 



