of eiglit rows. Endli
is reckoning the faint
:her, loc. cit, fays, that cach cone contains fiftei
row twice, when, ftarting from the bafe, i
renppeare<l at the tip. Within each
fcale are two feeds, of which the wings
are about half an inch in length [figs. 8
to ! 3]; the back of the wing is firaight,
the front rounded and deeply emarginate
at the bafe near the feed; it is
light brown with darker ftria; of varj--
, ing breadth. The feeds themfelves
are fmall for the fize of the cone, light
brown fpeckled with dark brown.
nart\veg nowhere fpeaks of his
having met with Pi7ms iuberciilata,
although he travelled through the diftricl
where it is found: but he met with
it neverthelefs, and gives the following
account of it under the name of P.
Another kind of pine that I found within
Californie.
a few hundred yards of the foregoing fpec
is probably the doubtful and little ki
[Pinus Benthamiana),
.-n Pinus Californica.
.-th, and do not attain any great
lan 25 feet, by 8 inches in diameter
re in bundles of three, 4; inches long;
inches long by 2 broad ; the outer furface
,1. . I curved, the inner ftraight; fcales on the outer furface
\ ' I i| more developed, inclofing two fmall flat-winged feeds.
The cones are only produced on the main ftem ; whi
colour, and ftand off at nearly a right angle; when old <
the ftem, and remain on the trees for a feries of years without openin
Hort. Soc., iL p. 189.) This, it will be fccn, is a very exact defa
tion of P. tubcrculata, and any doubt
by iMr I lartweg having fent fpecimen;
and figured by Mr Gordon in the Jc
tural Society, vol iv. p. 219.
" T h e doubtful and little known Pinus Californica"
probably continue doubtful and little known until its name is e
r books altogether
m ripe they are of a light brown
if a filvery grey, prefTing firmly ujjon
or flicdding their feeds." {Joum.
s to its identity is removed
home, which were identified
rnal of the Royal Horticulâ
h
»•ill
fed
and the fooner this i:
<h>ne ere now had it
done the better. It
.»t been a legacy of
Collignon (named Collad,
botanical collector) to the
hood of that place, o
the following defcrlpti
from
probably would have been
La I'eroufe, poffcffmg a fpecial intereft, p.artienl.irly to the French, from
being the only plant (if we may tniff Louilon) that has been preferved
of thofe fent home by the expedition under the command of th,at
o unfortunate navigator In 17B6 or 1787 he touched at Abaiterey, and
I by Loudon), who was gardener (or, as we Iliould call it now, botanilt or
;pedition, eollefled fome cones of a pine or pines growing in the neighbour-
,f which was fent to the Mufeum (,f Natural Iliflory at Paris. From this conc
vas dna,
NOUVL ! D„tmmd. vol.
up by ProfelTor Thouln, and after
1 publithcd hy Loifele.
p. 343, " Lea, - drr ndc,
s much
in the
,nger th,an
the
the leaves. . . . The cone had the form of the great maritime pine ( P / K H S b u t a third longer
in all its dimenfions. Under each of its fcales two feeds are found of the fize of thofe of P. Cembra, the
kernel of which is good to eat" No figure of the cone is given, and the cone itfelf difappeared fnim the
Mufeum about the year 1814. So far as La Peroufe or Collignon's fpecimen itfelf is concerned, therefore,
we are confined to the above defcription. Now, by this fime we know pretty well all the pines th.at arc found
in the immediate neighbourhood of Monterey; and the only fpecies with " leaves in twos or threes " which
have feeds whieh can be compared in fize to thofe of Pi,ins Cembra, and of which the kernel is good to cat,
are Pi„„s SaH,liana and />. CoaUeri No doubt the feeds of both of thefe fpecies are larger than thofe of
P. Cembra, and have wings, which P. Ccnhra has not; but Collignon fpe.aking from recollcflion might have
forgot their exact fize. They were and arc ufcd as an article of food or delTert at the Miffion, and by the
fcttlers as well as by the natives; and it is natural that he fhould remember this feature in the charaeler of the
ftiecies. But if he re.ally ever .got or law a fpecimen of the cone of P. Conlteri or P. Sabiniana, it is by no
means natunal, it is perfedly incomprehenfible—we Iboukl almofi fay perfedly impofiible—that he could have
pafi-ed it over without noticing its wonderful form, fize, and .gre.at honked fc.ales. It is equally out of the
((uefiion that Thouin, defcribing from the cone itfelf fiiould have overlooked them; and not only fo, but
that he fiiould have defcribed it as of the form of but a thirtl longer and larger than, P. pinajicr. Our
belief is that Collignon never eolleeled the fpedmens himfclf at all, but, tafting the feeds at the .Miffion or
elfewherc, he exprcffed a rlefirc to get fpcclme
of going to the more difiant fecnnd range o
which were nearetl to their hand ; and as the eon
fealed up and difficult to open even when mature, it
them up (whieh, befides, would fpoil the fpecimen;
the edible kernels, there are feveral three-leaved pin
would ,anfwer Thouin's defcription well enough,
might apply equally well cither to the iircfent fpecie
that character goes, wc remain in as .great obfcurity
;)f the cone. The men he employed to get thefe, infie.ad
hieh they are chiefly to be found, would take the concs
ones of all the pines growing there are very impenetrably
,is not likely that he would be at the trouble of breaking
m), and fo difeover the impoflure. PuUing out of view
Loifeleur informs us, however, that the feeds
IS whieh grow in the ndghbourhood of Monterey which
(\ cone like, but a third larger than, that ot P. finajler
: or to P. injignis or to P. Be,itla,n,iana, and, so far as
>f Colligiion'i
them, which,
t to botanic g
; flill furvivei
nifiied him w
Plantes, and that twelve plants had been raifed fron
veiy well. Mo« of thefe plants were after^vards fei
rem.ained in the Jardin des Plantes, of which on
h.ad reachcxl the hei.ght of ; feet. This plant fii
m,ay have been it which enabled him to fay that the
cone had been fown at the Jardin des
•ultivated in the Orangery, had fueceeded
1 fome
that the leaves ai
long, and adding
inehes long as aj
the ones were "
probably th,
, featur
and P, a,inn
ra (Boi
gcnenally admitted nowa
a fynonym of Loifelcur's
Of the twelve plant
Vilmorin, that one founc
f,oiidon wrote his./,-/»,
Plantes h.aving all died,
while thofe in the Jard
goo.l many young pl;
,\I„nler,ye„Jls (turneil
of Latinih". and qi
1 . » •]
inches in length ;
third to bring it up
ait the leaves 3 inch,
Itch longer" The le
1 on the flrength of 1
:) are fynonyms of P.
iowad.ays. P. adauea
air's P. Californica, a
liants raifed from Col
ray into the
(.,83,S), itw
,lon mentioi
the fouth of r
(when Loifcli
nformation as
nee, but feveral
• wrote), and it
the leaves. It
He informs us
iich longer than the leaves
.mcs of P, pinafler at from 4 t,
lents. we would have the eones f
whieh would fairly entitle him
cry greet
erally Caiiforni,
to 6 inches
in faying that this
the Ban Jar,«ni,r
its ft
,ted
md, reckoning the
to Thouin's require
•s long—a tlilTerence to fay th.at
ives, he fays, were very fiender and of a deep green, which is
.•hich " it is now generally admitted that P. Californica (Loifel. )
infgnis (Dou.gl.)," if Carrière he corre
is a manufcript name of Bo.se, quoted i
id need not be eonfidcred
ignon's fpecimen, we learn fr,
m Loudon, on t
i .authority of M.
nurfeia- of II. Ooilefroy at V
lie cfAvray, nea
Paris ; and when
as the only one whieh rcmai
oil alive, thofe
the J.ardin des
IS incidentally that Godefroy's plant was protcded every winter,
s Plantes were pl.anted in the open ground M, Godefroy manufactured a
1 this individual by inarching, and fent them out under the name of Pi,„is
Monilteragcnfis',,, the Horticultural Society's garden at Chifwick for the fake
ndcr that name by Loudon). The llorticultunal Sodety got one fpecimen,
B regarding