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Ities and acquires a sweetness similar to that of sugar or manna, for which 

 it, is sometimes used, whence the name of sugar pine." — Engelmann, in Bot 

 Cal 2:123. 



The sugar which the writer has collected from trees in the Cuyamaca 

 mountains, east of San Diego, was very sweet, fine-grained and white as 

 snow. It occurs throughout California, north to the Columbia river, and is 

 very valuable for its timber. 



P. muricata D. Don, in Linn Soc tr 17:441 (1837). Orcutt, Am pi 1:190 D. 

 P. Edgariana Hartw, Hort Soc J 3:217. 



A middle sized tree, 25-50 or rarely 80-120 ft hi, mostly slender (1 or 

 2 or rarely 3 ft thick), with reddish-brown roughish bark and a patulous 

 top: lvs rigid, 4-6 i long, %-l li broad, strongly serrulate; bracts lightly 

 fringed, subpersistent; sheaths 9 li long, at length reduced to 1 li: male 

 lis oval, 6-8 li long, in spikes an i long: inv % as long as fls, of 6 or 8 

 bracts, the outer as long as the inner: cones sessile, spreading or more or 

 less recurved, in clusters of 4-7, often remaining closed and long-persistent, 

 ovate and very oblique, chestnut brown 2-3^ (usually 3) i long and iy 2 2 

 i thick; prickles short and stout or (in the southern form) making long 

 straightish or incurved spurs on the outside: sds 3 li long, grooved and 

 rough, black; wing 6-8 li long, widest above the middle: cotyledons 4 or 5. 

 Only known near the coast, where it is exposed to the sea winds and fogs, 

 to an alt of 2000 ft, from Mendocino, Cal., where it grows tallest (in peat 

 bogs), to Tomales Point (in the most sterile soil), Monterey and San Luis 

 Obispo. The cones are said to persist on the tree over 30 years. 



Tradition saith that pine trees formerly grew on Point Loma, but not 

 a trace of any remain. This tree is found at the San Ysidro landing, near 

 the iron mines in Baja California — some of the cone-bearing trees being 

 scarce 3 ft hi! As this tree occurs both north and south of San Diego, 

 it might well once thrived according to tradition on Point Loma. 



P. Torreyana Parry ex Torrey, Bot Mex Bound 210 t 58, 59. Orcutt, Am pi 

 1:94, 351 D. 



[The following "Historical notice of Pinus Torreyana," read by C. C. 

 Parry before the San Diego Society of Natural History, 2 N 18S3, and 

 printed in the West American Scientist 1:37-38, seems worth reprinting.] 



In the spring of 1850, when connected with the Mexican Boundary Sur- 

 vey, my attention was first called to a peculiar species of pine growing on 

 the Pacific coast at the mouth of the Soledad valley, San Diego county, by 

 a casual inquiry from Dr. J. L. LeConte, the distinguished American ento- 

 mologist, then staying in San Diego, who asked what pine was growing 

 near the ocean beach at that locality. Not having any specimens to show, 

 he simply mentioned at the time its dense cones, and its long, stout leaves, 

 5 in a sheath. Not long after an opportunity offered to the writer for a 

 personal investigation, having been ordered by Major W. H. Emory to make 

 a geological examination of the reported coal deposits on the ocean bluff 

 above Soledad. 



In making a section of these strata (see report of the Mex Bound Surv, 

 Vol. 1, pt 2) it was necessary to follow up some of tbe sharp ravines that 

 here debouch on the ocean beach, and here my attention was taken up by 

 this singular and unique maritime pine, which, with its strong clusters of 

 terminal leaves and its distorted branches loaded down with ponderous 

 cones, was within easy reach of botanical clutch. From the notes and col- 

 lections there made, a description was drawn up dedicating this well marked 

 new species to Dr. John Torrey, an honored friend and instructor of both 

 Dr. LeConte and the writer. 



Of tbe few specimens then collected a single cone and bunch was sent 

 to Dr. Torrey, to be figured for the Mexican boundary report, (Vol. 2, p. 10, 

 pi. 58-59). While there it fell under the notice of some inquisitive botaa- 



