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WHITE PINE. 
PINUS strobus ,foliis quinis gracilibus, vaginis nullis , strobilis elongatis 
subcylindraceis cernuis , squamis taxis planiusculis , antherarum crista 
minuta , setacea , bifida, 
PINUS Strobus, Linn. Sp. pi. Pursh. Flor. Am. 2, p. 644. Hooker, 
Flor. Bor. Am. 2, p. 161. Lambert, Pines, tab. 32. Mich. Sylva, 
tab. 145. 
0. monticola, foliis brevioribus obtusis vix serrulatis, Pinus monticola, 
Douglas. “ The Mountain, or Short-Leaved Weymouth Pine.” 
Loudon, Arbor. 4, p. 2291, fig. 2208 and 2209. Lambert, Pin. vol. 
2, p. 3, tab. 87. 
Respecting the geographical limits of this species, Hooker 
adds in his Flora. From Nova Scotia and Canada, to the 
Saskatchewan of Hudson’s Bay, in latitude 55°, and the 
east side of the Rocky Mountains. (Drummond). On the 
west side of the same great chain of mountains, (including 
only the variety £. monticola ), from the sources of the 
Oregon to the alpine range of Mount Hood, towards the 
north-west coast. 
The largest trees of this towering pine which I have 
seen, are on the borders of the Androscoggin near Paris 
in Maine, where they seem to emulate in elevation the vast 
Firs of the Oregon. In the vicinity of Portsmouth, I am 
informed by John Elwyn, Esq., a tree was cut down some 
years ago which measured 200 feet in height. Naugen- 
heim also remarks, that from the size of two masts for 74 
gun-ships, that he saw 7 in the Plymouth dock-yards, which 
measured in the whole piece 108 feet each, that such a 
tree must have been 200 feet long, and 5 feet or more in 
diameter. 
