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usual flavour, and acquires a sweet taste; in which state it is used by the 
natives as sugar, being mixed with their food. The ‘seeds are eaten roasted, 
or are pounded into coarse cakes for their winter store. H. S. 
2 53. P. (S.) monti’cota Dougl. The Mountain, or short-leaved 
Weymouth, Pine. 
Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., vol. 2., 3. t. 87. 
Engravings. Lamb, Pin., 3, t. 87.; and our 8. 1913. and 1914. from Douglas’s specimens in th 
herbarium of the Horticultural Society. 4s 5 bs . 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves in fives, short, smoothish, obtuse. Cones cylin- 
drical and smooth ; scales loose and pointed. (D. Don.) Buds, in the 
plant in the Lon- : . 
don Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, 
small, resembling 
those of P. Lam- 
bertidna. Leaves 
from 32 in. to 4in. 
long, without the 
sheaths. Cone, 
from Douglas’s 
specimen, 7 in. 
long, and 13 in. 
broad; rather ob- 
tuse at the point: 
scales 2in. broad 
at the widest part, 
and from 13 in. to 
2in. long, and co- 
vered with resin. 
Seed small, 3, in. 
long, and +; in. 
broad ; with the 
wing, 1d in. long, 
and iin. broad. 
Cotyledons, ?. A 
tree. High moun- 
tains, at the Grand 
Rapids of the Co- 
lumbia river ; and 
in California, on 
the rocky banks of 
the Spokan river. 
Height (?). Intro- 
duced in 1831; but 
there are only very 
small plants in 
England. 
Ti 
te fi 
bi 
Hi 
Except in its much 
shorter and smoother 
leaves, this species 
differs but little from 
P, Strobus, of which 
it may prove to be 
only a variety ; but, 
until an opportunity 
occurs of examining \ 
the male catkins, and ; 191%. P.(S,) montfcola. 
