
          Dr Parry has collected another very
pretty, and I believe new, alpine
Pine, which I think would properly
be named P. ariststa. The [?]
of the scales terminates in a long
and conspicuous awn! which gives
the cone a very peculiar appearance
but at last disappears (in old specimens).
Leaves at 5s, very resinous
cones short, [patulous?] or erect; seeds
small with large wings or else I
would take it for James' P. flexilis.
It must be the Pine mentioned by
you in Fremonts Reports p. 97. and
Gunnisons Report p. 130. I can not
identify it with any other described
pine nor does it even [assimilate?]
to any of ours so far as I can see.

Could you let me have a single
leaf or a bunch of leaves of your Fremont's
Pine and Gunnison's and James' original
flexilis? If you could, I would be
much obliged to you. Also your P. Llaveana

Parry says that Pinus flexilis
does not reach the highest elevations
while Pinus aristata is confined to
the alpine summits and is often quite
prostrate; just as Newberry describes
his P. cembroides.  

        