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in height ; dry, gravelly ridges and slopes from 2,500 (San Bernardino 

 Mountains) to ' 5,500 (Mount Shasta) feet elevation ; not common 

 (C. S. Sargent). 



Seems hardy in Denmark. 



I have kept some cones of it for more than twenty-five years, and 

 they are not yet opened. I have seen a cone-bearing plant in the 

 Northern Netherlands. 



This Pine was first discovered by Dr. Coulter, to the south of 

 Monterey, near the level of the sea, and growing almost close to the 

 beach, intermixed with P. radiata. Mr. Hartweg found it growing on 

 the Santa Cruz Mountains, sixty miles to the north of Monterey by 

 land. It is a tree of slow growth, and seldom attains more than 

 30 feet in height, with a trunk 8 or 10 inches in diameter. Mr. Jeffrey 

 found it at an elevation of 5,000 feet, with the cones adhering to the 

 tree ; in several instances with twenty whorls of cones on the trunk, 

 the growth of as many years, the branches being covered with them 

 in the same way as the trunk. The timber is red and hard, and the 

 tree of a conical form, growing about 40 feet high, in poor sandy soil. 

 It is quite hardy (G. Gordon, "The Pinetum," 1875). 



P. Winchesteriana, Gord. Journ. Hort. Soc. ii. 158 (cum ic.) ; 

 Lindl. and Gord. I. c. v. 215 ; Knight, Syn. Conif. 33 ; Carr. Man. 

 des PI. iv. 351, and Tr. Gen. Conif. 325 ; Gord. Pinet. 241 ; Henk. 

 and Hochst. Syn, der Nadelh. 118 (excl. syn. Roezl) ; J. E. Nelson, 

 Pinac. 137. 



Habitat. — Mexico, where it was found by the Marquis of Win- 

 chester, who in 1846 introduced it into Europe. Hartweg found it in 

 great numbers on the Cerro de San Juan near Tepic. 



We have not yet acquired any plants, but I have cones in my 

 collection. 



31. CEDRUS.— Endl. Conif. 135. Laricis sp. Tourn. Inst. 586. 

 Abietis sp. Juss. Gen. PL 414 ; Rich. Conif. 147, t. 14, n. 1. Cedrus, 

 Link in Linnsea, xv. 537, and pi. Auct. ; Pari, in DC. Prodr. xvi. 

 2, 407 ; Lamb. Pin. ii. t. 37, and ed. min. t. 51, 52 (Pinus) ; 

 Forb. Pin. Wob. t. 48, 49 (Pinus) ; Hook. fil. in Nat. Hist. Rev. 1862, 

 xi. t. 1-3 ; Carr. Conif. 366 ; C. Koch, Dendr. ii. 265 ; Gord. Pin. 39 ; 

 Henk. and Hochst. Nadelh. 140 ; Eichl. in Engl, and Prantl, Nattirl. 

 Pflf. ii. s. 74 ; WiUk. Forst. Fl. s. 158 ; Beissn. Nadelh. 296. 



Floiuers monoecious ; the male catkins solitary, cylindrical, erect, 

 and terminal, female somewhat oval and obtuse, solitary, very rarely 

 in twos, and erect. 



Cones oval, obtuse at the ends, quite smooth, erect, and on the 

 upper side of the branches. 



Scales very closely placed, rounded on the outer margins, quite 

 thin at the edges, leathery, smooth, and more or less deciduous. 



Seeds in twos under each scale, with a soft tegumental covering, 



