PINUS 
LAM BE RTI AN A, Dongle 
The Sugar Pine of the Californian fettlers. 
Nat-Cleh, in the Umptqua Indian language. 
Identification.— PINUS LAMBERTIANA, Douglas, in Linn. Trans., xv. p. 500 (1828); Hooker, FLor. Bor. Amer., ii. p. 161 (1829-40); 
Lambert, Genus Pinus, p. 57 (ed. 1832); Lawfon, Agric. Manual, p. 361 (1836); Loudon, Arboretum, iv. p. 2288 (1838); 
Lorbes, Pinet. Woburn., p. 77 (1839); Antoine, Conif., p. 41 (1840-46); Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 1909-12 (1842); Spach, 
Hijl. Nat. Vdg. Phaner.; xi. p. 397 (1842); Nuttal, Sylva, iii. p. 122 (1842); De Chambray, Traite Prat. Arb. Rds. Conif., 
p. 346 (1845); Endlicher, Syn. Conif., p. 150 (1847); Knight, Syn. Conif., p. 34 (1850); Lindley and Gordon, Jozmi. Hort. 
Soc., v. p. 215 (1850); Lawfon, Abiehnece, p. 25 (1851); Carriere, TraitS Ghi. des Conif., p. 307 (1855); Newberry, U. S. 
Pacif. Rail. Rep., vi. p. 42 (1857); Gordon, Pinetum, p. 228 (1858). 
Engravings. — Cones, Leaves, &c. —Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. 2, t. 34; Antoine, Conif., t. 19; Loudon, Arboretum, iv., figs. 2203-6; Lorbes, 
Pinet. Woburn., t. 30; Nuttal, Sylva, iii. t. 14; Newberry, in U. S. Pacif. Rail. Rep., vi. t. 14. 
Trees. —Loudon, Arboretum, iv., fig. 2202 and fig. 2207 (young plants). 
Var. BREVIPOLIA—Hooker, loc. cit .fupra. 
Specific Character. —P. foliis quinis modice longis carinato-trigonis filiformibus fat rigidis, tactu leviter 
ferratis ; vaginis breviffimis caducis; ftrobilis magnis longiffimis cylindricis utrinque obtufis; fquamis laxis 
apice fubrotundatis; umbone terminali dilatato obtufiffimo; feminibus magnis ovatis, alis membranaceis 
fuliginolis fat latis, tefta nigrofufea cruftacea. 
Habitat in Oregon et California. 
Var. brevifolia. —Foliis brevioribus et rigidioribus. 
Habitat in Montibus Rupeftribus (“ Rocky Mountains”). 
Leaves in fives, from 3 to 5 inches long, firm, glaucous, with a bluifh-white bloom, numerous, 
roughened along the midrib and edges by ferratures invifible to the naked eye, the 
ferratures directed to the point of the leaf. Sheath very fhort, about a line in length. The 
leaves make one full fpiral from top to bottom, the edge on the right hand at the bottom, 
being on the left at the top. (In P. Monticola they make half a turn, the edge on the left 
hand at the bottom being on the back at the top. In P. Strobus , Ayacahuite , and excelfia, 
there is no perceptible fpiral turn.) The point of the leaf is acute and fomewhat fword- 
fhaped. The ferratures on the leaf are very flight, and lefs frequent towards the point: at 
the middle and bafe of the leaf the diftance between each ferrature is generally about half 
the breadth of the leaf; towards the point the diftance becomes one and a half or twice 
the breadth of the leaf [fig. 1]. If the ferratures of the leaf are to be made ufe of as a 
specific character, the neceftity of taking fome fuch ftandard as this for eftimating their 
relative ftze and frequency muft be obvious. The leaf is trigonal, the back being convex, 
and the two hides fomewhat concave. On all three the ftomata are difpofed in three or four rows, fome- 
3 ] a times 
Fig. 1. 
