interested in their determined seizure of the 
ocean-blown sands, century after century, and 
their individually different implements or 
armor, with which they have learned to equip 
themselves for resisting the fury of the ocean 
gales. 
Examination reveals the curious fact that 
the southernmost of the line, the one in the 
semi-tropic latitude of San Diego, is the most 
limited in area of occupation and in the num¬ 
ber of trees, and that it has the largest cones, 
with the largest seeds; the leaves are the 
largest, the longest, and they have the great¬ 
est number in the fascicle; grading down in 
several respects through species after species, 
the last one being the little dwarf pine, with 
minute organs, condensed for the fight along 
the Arctic shore of Alaska. 
First is the Torrey Pine (P. Torreyana), 
named for the eminent botanist Dr. John Tor¬ 
rey; often called the Lone Pine. It is found 
on the beach near Del Mar, twenty miles north 
of San Diego, with a few on adjacent islands. 
It is now reduced to a few hundred trees, 
crouched and creeping on the sand or strug¬ 
gling for the erect position in the valley back 
of the bluffs, their tops broadened out and 
flattened to just the level of the barrier. 
The prostrated trees on the shore side are 
on all-fours, so to speak, and thrusting up¬ 
ward short, sturdy shoots heavily loaded with 
circles or with solitary cones, which are nearly 
globular, four to five inches long, and of the 
hardest and heaviest character, two to three 
pounds weight, with short points to the broad 
scales. The seeds, hard as filberts, are about 
an inch long, the largest pine seeds known. 
The leaves reach the limit of extension at 
three points; they are twelve to eighteen inches 
long, one-tenth of an inch wide, and there 
are five of these unequaled needles to the fas¬ 
cicle. 
