PINETUM DANICUM. 



391 



Syn. CoDif. 152 ; Lindl. and Gord. Journ. Hort. See. V. ^}15 ; Knight, 

 Syn. Conif. 33; Carr. Traitd Gen. des Conif. 314; Gord. Pinet. 

 238 ; Henk. and Hochst. Syn. der Nadelholzk. 105 ; J. E. Nelson, 

 Pinac. 128. 



Habitat. — On the highest points of "Carmen," in Mexico. Hartweg 

 discovered it on the way from San Pedro to San Pablo, near Real del 

 Monte. 



Introduced into Europe in 1839. 



We have not yet obtained the plant in Denmark, but I have 

 cones in my collection. 



P. Sabiniana, Dougl, in Companion to Bot. Mag. ii. 150 ; Lamb. 

 Pin. ed. 1, iii. 137, t. 58 ; Loud. Arbor, iv. 2246, f. 2138-43 ; Forb. 

 Pinet. Wob. 63, t. 23, 24 : Hook. El. Bor. Am. ii. 162 ; Lindl. in 

 Penn. Cycl. xvii. 172 ; Ant. Conif. 30, t. 11 ; Hook, and Arnott, Bot. 

 Beechey, 393 ; Link in Linneea, xv. 509 ; Nutt. Sylv. iii. 110, t. 113, 

 and ed. 2, ii. 169, t. 113 ; Spach, Hist. Yeg. Phan. xi. 390 ; De 

 Chambray, Tr. Arb. Res. 347 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 159 ; Knight, 

 Syn. Conif. 30 ; Lindl. and Gord. in Journ. Hort, Soc. Lond. v. 216 ; 

 Fl. des Serres, ix. 275, t. 964; Carr. Tr. Gen. Conif. 334, and 

 ed. 2, 435 ; Torr. and Gray in Pacific R.R. Rep. ii. 130 ; Bigelow 

 in Pacific R.R. Rep. iv. 25 ; Torr. in Pacific R.R. Rep. iv. 141, 

 Bot. Mex. Boundary Surv. 210, t. 57, and Ives' Rep. 28 ; Newberry in 

 Pacific R.R. Rep. vi. 39, 90, f. 13 ; Gord. Pinet. 208, and ed. 2, 284; 

 Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 261 ; Walpers, Ann. v. 799 ; 

 Bolander in Proc. Calif. Acad. iii. 226, 318 ; Henk. and Hochst. 

 Nadelh. 75 ; Lawson, Pinet. Brit. i. 85, t. 11, f. 1-3 ; Nelson, 

 Pinac. 129 ; Hoopes, Evergreens, 121 ; Pari, in DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 

 391 ; Fowler in Lond. Gard. Chron. 1872, 1326 ; Koch, Dendr. ii. 2, 

 312 ; Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 31 ; Engelm. in Wheeler s Rep. vi. 

 375, Trans. St. Louis Acad. iv. 182, and Bot. Calif, ii. 127 ; Veitch, 

 Man. Conif. 169. 



Habitat. — California, Portuguese Flat, Shasta County ; south 

 along the foot-hills of the coast ranges and the western slope of the 

 Sierra Nevada, below 4,000 feet elevation. 



A large tree, 80-100 feet in height, with a trunk 2-4 feet in 

 diameter ; very common through all the foot-hills region (C. S. 

 Sargent, "Forest Trees of North America "). 



Mr. Muir, in an article in Harper's Magazine on the coniferous 

 forests of the Sierra Nevada, gives the following account of this tree, 

 which for its interest is worth transcribing : ' ' The first coniferous 

 tree met by the traveller in ascending the range from the west is the 

 Nut Pine, remarkable for its loose, airy, tropical appearance, suggesting 

 a region of Palms rather than cool rising Pine woods. No one would 

 take it at first sight to be a Pine or Conifer of any kind, it is so loose 

 in habit and so v/idely branched, and its foliage is so thin and grey. 

 Full-grown specimens are from 40 to 50 feet in height, and from 2 to 



