PINUS INSIGNIS. 
Identification.— PINUS INSIGNIS (Douglas), Loudon, Arboretum , iv. p. 2265 (1838); Loudon, Encycl. of Trees , p. 988 (1842); Forbes, 
Pmet. Woburn., p. 51 (1839); Spach, Hifl. Nat. VSg. Phaner., xi. p. 389 (1842); Bentham, in Voyage of the Sulphur, 
p. 55 (1844); Antoine, Conif., p. 27 (1846); Endlicher, Syn. Conif., p. 163 (1847); Lindley and Gordon, in Journ. Hort. 
Soc., v. p. 217 (1850); Knight, Syn. Conif., p. 30 (1850); Lawfon, Abietinece, p. 31 (1851); Carriere, Traits G£n. des Conif., 
p. 839 (1855); Torrey, in U. S. Pacific Railroad Explorations (Report on General Botanical Collections), iv. p. 141 (1856); 
Bigelow, in do., p. 25 (1856); Gordon, Pinetum, p. 197 (1858); Murray, in Edin. New Phil. Jour., April i860. 
PINUS RADIATA, Don, in Linn. Trans., xvii. p. 442 (1837); Lambert, Genus Pinus, iii. p. 133 (1837); Loudon, Ar¬ 
boretum, iv. p. 2270 (1838); Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 990 (1842); Antoine, Conif., p. 33 (1840-46); Endlicher, Syn. 
Conif., p. 161 (1847) ; Hartweg, in Journ. Hort. Soc., iii. p. 226 (1848) ; Gordon, in do., iv. p. 214 (1849); Lindley and 
Gordon, in do., v. p. 216 (1850) ; Flore des Serres, vi. p. 434 (1850); Knight, Syn. Conif., p. 30 (1850); Lawfon, Abie¬ 
tinece, p. 33 (1851); Carriere, TraitC Ghi. des Conif., p. 338 (1855); Gordon, Pinetum, p. 206 (1858). 
Engravings. — Cones, Leaves, &c. — Var. INSIGNIS, Loudon, Arboretum, figs. 2171, 2172; Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, figs. 1847, 1848 ; Forbes, 
Pinet. Woburn., t. 18; Antoine, Conif., t. 8, fig. 1. 
Var. RADIATA, Lambert, Gemis Pimts, iii. t. 56 ; Loudon, Arboretum, fig. 2182 ; Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, 
t. 1851 ; Antoine {loc. cit), t. 14, fig. 3 ; Gordon, Journ. Hort. Soc., iv. p. 214 ; Flore des Serres, vi. p. 434. 
Specific Character .—Pinus foliis ternis quaternifve elongatis filiformibus ferrulatis laete gramineo- 
viridibus, vagina brevi, ftrobilis inequilatere ovatis fquamarum apophyfi elevato pyramidata carina tranfverfa 
acuta, umbone parvo obtufo medio dente parvo terminato, feminibus parvis concoloribus, ala elongata. 
Habitat in California prope Monterey. 
A tree of moderate height, in youth thickly clothed with beautiful rich grafs-green foliage, with numerous 
branches, in age more bare of foliage, and knotted and bent. Bark light-brown; leaves [fig. 1 ] 
in threes (occafionally four in the fheath), triquetral, flender, filiform, twiffed, from 4 to 6 inches 
long, with from 7 to 9 rows of ftomata on the back [fig. 2], and two or three rows on each of the 
inner Tides, the margins and keel very clofely ferrate [fig. 3]. 
a x Sheaths not long, about one-third of an inch in length. 
m|JJ Buds [fig. 4] from one-eighth to a quarter of an inch long, 
wm narrow, cylindrical, rather abruptly pointed. Male flowers 
in fmall fhort catkins, at firft cluffered together, but as the 
S 4 branchlet (near the apex of which they are produced) elon¬ 
gates, becoming more feparated from each other [fig. 5]; fawn-coloured, with a tinge of brown- 
ifh purple or carmine towards the apex. Anthers [figs. 6, 7, and 8] bilocular, fhort, the creff 
with a laciniated margin, feptum broad. Cones fub-conical, growing in clufters of two or Fi s- «• 
three together clofe to the Item or branch, with the apex downward, and turned toward the ftem, the outer 
fide with the feales largely developed, flout, and projecting prominently outwards, and extending on that 
fide confiderably behind the ftalk ; from 35 to 6 inches in length, and about two-thirds of their length at their 
[ I 9 ] A broadeft 
