P I N U S 
S A B I N I A N A. 
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Identification. —PINUS SABINIANA (Douglas MSS.). Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. 2, ii. p. 146 (1837-8). Loudon, Arboretum , iv. p. 
2246 (1838). Forbes, Pinet. Woburn ., p. 63 (1839). Antoine, Conif., p. 30 (1840-46) Link, in Lmnece , xv. p. 509 (1841). 
Loudon, Encycl. of Trees , p. 982 (1842). Spach, Hijl. Nat. Veg. Phaner., xi. p. 390(1842). De Chambray, Traitd Prat. 
Arb. Rds. Conif., p. 347 (1845). Endlicher, Syn. Conif., p. 159 (1847). Lindley and Gordon, in Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 
316 (1850). Knight, Syn. Conif., p. 30 (1850). Flore des Serres, ix. p. 275 (1854). Carriere, Traitd Gdn. des Conif., 
p. 334 (1855). Gordon, Pinetum, p. 208 (1858). 
NUT PINE and DIGGER PINE of the Californian fettlers. 
Engravings. — Cones, Leaves, &c.- —Lambert, loc. cit., t. 58. Loudon, Arboretum, loc. cit., figs. 2138-2143. Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, loc. at., 
figs. 1834-1838. Forbes, Pinet. Woburn,, loc. cit., t. 23-24. Antoine, loc. cit., t. 11. Flore des Serres, loc. at. 
Specific Character .—Pinus foliis ternis quaternifque elongatis tenuibus, vaginis laceris longis: ftrobilis 
magnis pyramidato-ovatis, fquamis connatis apophyfi ancipiti umbone valido elongato fubulato uncinato 
incurvo acuto, feminibus alae longitudine. 
Fig. 2. 
A large tree, reaching about ioo feet in height. Trunk ftraight; bark afh-grey, not very thick. 
Branches draggling and bent, with leaves only at the terminations, which bear a double tuft of long leaves 
hanging heavily down ; confequently the tree ufually looks bare and unfurnifhed. 
Leaves in threes, perfiftent for only two years, glaucous, from 10 to 12 inches long, 
fharp-pointed, ftrong, but not fo much fo as in P. macrocarpa —twifted, three-fided, 
rounded on the outer fide, and with a prominent midrib on the inner, which, as well 
as the lateral margins, are ftrongly ferrated: with from 10 to 12 rows of ftomata on 
the outer rounded fide [fig. i], and from 4 to 6 on each fide of the midrib [fig. 2]. 
Sheaths [fig. 3] from 1 to i\ inches long and light brown when young, but 
fhortened, wrinkled, and grey when old. At the bafe on the outfide of each, 
when young, is a long fcale with a fhorter one on each fide of it. Terminal buds elongated, 
peaked, bearing about fix rows of leaf-buds fpirally difpofed ; the bafe or ftalk, which lengthens 
with its growth, not bearing leaves, but merely fcales, fo that the twig of a year’s growth 
would be bare but for a tuft of long leaves at its apex, each branch thus fhewing two tufts 
of long leaves at a diftance from each other. The phyllulae left by the fall of the leaves are 
jpN fmall and diftant from each other, and with very flight decurrent fears. Male catkins, appear¬ 
ing in their native country in February and March, in Europe in May; eredt, alternate, and 
cluftered round the young buds ; whitifh, cylindrical, and obtufe; about an inch in length and { 
of an inch in diameter. Cones fubverticillate, growing at the extremity of laft year’s fhoots, 
from 8 to 10 inches long, and 6 or 7 inches in diameter, flightly more developed on the outer than the inner 
fide; of a bright green when young, fawn-coloured or brown when old; at firft eredt, afterwards pendent, 
furrounding the hern in clutters of from three to nine, which prefs on it for fupport, and remain on the tree 
for feveral years; very refmous ; footftalks 2 or 3 inches long; fcales hard and ftrong, fully 2 inches long 
and ij broad; apophyfis projedting, pyramidal, compreffed tranfverfely, flatted; on the inner fide, almoft 
[12] a fharp 
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Fig. 3- 
