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spermoderm, about 1J lines in length, wing 7-8ths of an inch 

 in length, pale brown, semitransparent, darker at the tip, and 

 with brown streaks running longitudinally. 



The tree is of great beauty and size ; one which was cut 

 down measured 123 feet in height, and 44 inches in diameter 

 at the stump. Another tree near it measured 17 feet 4 inches 

 in circumference at three feet from the ground. The stem 

 was a very handsome column about 30 feet to the first branch ; 

 timber good and clear. It was found on the top of a moun- 

 tain, in lat. 41° N., at the same altitude as Pinus Jeffreyi and 

 monticola, and Abies grandis, and higher than P. Bentha- 

 miana and Lambertiana. 



This and the following species (Craigana) seem to have 

 more affinity with P. Bentliamiana than any other described 

 species. But the present species has the points of the umbo 

 of the scale pointing towards the base of the cone, while in 

 Bentliamiana they point to the tip ; the cone of Benthamiana 

 is 5 inches long, while Beardsleyi is only 3 inches. The 

 leaves are 11 inches in length, while in Beardsleyi they are 

 only 6. The sheath of the leaf in Bentliamiana is an inch 

 long, while in Beardsleyi it is only an eighth of an inch. 

 The wing of the seed of Bentliamiana is much larger and 

 longer than that of Beardsleyi. The timber of Beardsleyi 

 is homogeneous all through. The heart of Bentliamiana is 

 redder than the sap wood, and the sap wood occupies a great 

 breadth of the stem. Beardsleyi grows much further up the 

 mountains than Bentliamiana. The distinction between the 

 cones of these trees will be sufficiently seen from the rough 

 etchings which I have given. The figure of the cone of Ben- 

 thamiana is copied from that given by Hartweg. Like all 

 that gentleman's figures and descriptions, it is very charac- 

 teristic of the cone as it is generally found, but it is inaccurate 

 as a representation of the cone in its complete state, in so far 

 that it represents the hooked umbo as pointing to the base. In 

 point of fact it does take a bend in that direction, but the 

 prickle which terminates the umbo takes a sudden turn back- 

 wards, and points to the tip like the following species {Craig- 

 ana). The prickle in the specimen, from which Hartweg's 

 figure has been taken, has obviously been rubbed off, which 



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