LXXVIL CONI’FERE: PINUS. 985 
long, and nearly 3in. broad; shell thick, hard, brown; wing yellow, short, 
stiff, and half the length of the seed, which it nearly encompasses; kernel 
pleasant to the taste. Cotyledons from 7 to 12. The tree does not attain 
quite so large a size as the other gigantic species of the genus which inhabit 
the northern and western parts of North America. The largest and most 
handsome trees inhabit the aqueous vegetable deposits on the western flank of 
the Cordilleras of New Albion, at a great elevation above the level of the sea, 
and 1600 ft. below the verge of perpetual snow, in the parallel of 40° N, lat. 
This species is quite hardy in British gardens, having passed the winter of 
1837-8 uninjured. 
£ 24, P. (S.) Cou‘Lrerr D. Don. Coulter’s, or the great hooked, Pine. 
Identification. Don in Lin. Trans., 17. p. 440.; Lamb. Pin., 3. t. 83. ; Pin. Wob., p. 67. 
Sy ry ? P. Sabine var. Hort.; ? P. macrocarpa Lindl. MS. Dr. Lindley finds, upon 
comparing Mr Lambert’s specimens of P. Coulter? with those of P. macrocarpa, that the identity 
of the two alleged species is by no means certain ; and that “in reality they are probably different.” 
(Bot. Reg., 1840, M. R., No.133.) The difference in the cones noticed by Dr. Lindley in the 
passage referred to may, in our opinion, exist without the two kinds being specifically different ; 
but, be that as it may, having no positive evidence before us from which to decide, we deein it 
better to retain the synonymes as in our first edition, but placing before them the expression of 
doubt. Young plants were raised at Kew in 1840, from seeds taken from a cone which is supposed 
to be the true P. Cotilter?, for which reason we have indicated it below as a variety. 
Engrayings. Lamb. Pin., 3. t.83.; Pin. Wob., t. 25. and 26. ; our fig. )841. from Lambert, fig. 1835. 
from the dried cone in the Horticultural Society’s herbarium, and jigs. 1839. and 1840. from the 
young plants in the Horticultural Society’s Garden. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves in threes, very long, compressed; sheaths 
ragged. Cones oblong, solitary, very large; scales wedge-shaped, 
with the apex elongated, thickened, lanceolate, mucronate, com- 
pressed, hooked. (D. Don.) Buds, on the tree in the Horticul- 
tural Society’s Garden (see fig. 1839.), 1 in. long, and from 2 in. 
to 4in. broad ; conical, pointed, convex on the sides, imbricated ; 
the scales of the buds adpressed, brown, and not covered with 
resin. Leaves of the young plants 9 in. long, and of the dried 
specimens in the herbarium of the Horticultural Society upwards 
of 10 in, long; of the same glaucous hue as those of P. Sabin- 
idna, but not turned downwards at any stage of their growth. 
Cones (see fig. 1841., to our usual scale) sent home by Douglas 
1 ft. in length, and 6in. in breadth; scales of the cones 3 in. 
long, and from 13 in. to I}in. broad. Scales (see jig. 1835. 
c) from 34in. to 4in. long, and from 14 in, to 13 in. broad ; in fig. 1841., 
at a, a front view of the hook of 
the scale is given, of the natural 
size. Seed (see fig. 1835. z) brown, 
flattish, from 3 in. to Zin. in length, 
and 2 in. in breadth, without the 
wing ; with the wing lin. in length: 
wing stiff, light brown, and-nearly 
encompassing the seed. Cotyle- 
dons, ?. The seed of P. Sabinzana 
is much larger than that of P. 
Coilteri, as shown at a and 6 in fig. 
1835. Shoots of the current year 
covered with a violet-coloured glau- 
cous bloom, like those of P. inops, 
but darker. A large tree. California, 
on the mountains of Santa Lucia in 
lat. 36°, at an elevation of 3000 ft. to 
4.000 ft. above the level of the sea. 
Height 80 ft. to 100 ft. Introd. 1832. 
It has not yet flowered in England. 
Variety. 
£ P. (S.) C.2 véra,— See the 
synonymes above. 1840, P. (8.) Cofilter. 
