A tall tree with rich green foliage, growing on a strip of coast south
of San Francisco, particularly in Monterey County. It grows also on
the islands forming the Santa Barbara Channel and on the Island of
Guadeloupe, Lower California. It is remarkably successful in the
warmer climates of Europe and of Australasia. The species is distinct
in its peculiar cone with rounded apophyses.
Plate XXXVII.
Figs. 319, 320, Cones. Fig. 321, Leaf-fascicle and magnified
leaf-section. Fig. 322, Leaf-section from a binate fascicle. Fig.
323, Magnified dermal tissues of the leaf.
[Illustration: PLATE XXXVII. P. MURICATA (315, 316), ATTENUATA (317,
318), RADIATA (319-323)]
=XIII. MACROCARPAE=
Pits of the ray-cells small. Wing-blade of the seed thick. Cones large.
Leaves long and stout.
This group is remarkable for the size of leaf, conelet, and cone. The
peculiar thick seed-wing is more or less obscurely present among the
species of the Insignes, but never attains the development that
differentiates this group from all other Pines. The leaf-section is
notable for the large amount of hypoderm and for the presence of both
thick and thin outer walls of the endoderm-cells, both forms appearing
in the same leaf.
Wing-blade with a short membranous extension.
Leaves in fascicles of 5 64. Torreyana
Leaves in fascicles of 3 65. Sabiniana
Wing-blade with a long membranous extension, leaves
in fascicles of 3 66. Coulteri
64. PINUS TORREYANA
1855 P. Torreyana Parry ex Carrière, Trait. Conif. 326.
1860 P. lophosperma Lindley in Gard. Chron. 46.
Spring-shoots uninodal, pruinose. Leaves in fascicles of 5, from 20 to
33 cm. long, very stout; resin-ducts medial, hypoderm uniform or
somewhat multiform and of many cells. Conelets large, mucronate. Cones
from 10 to 15 cm. long, on stout peduncles, broad-ovate, symmetrical,
somewhat persistent; apophyses chocolate-brown, prominently pyramidal,
the umbo salient and capped with a small mucro; seed-wing short, very
thick, the dorsal surface of the nut spotted with the black remnants of
the spermoderm.
A tree 10 or 12 metres high, often semi-prostrate in exposed
positions, confined to a restricted area on the coast north of San
Diego, California, and to the Island of Santa Rosa. This species
resembles P. Sabiniana in the length of its seed-wing and in the color
of its cone, but is distinct in the short triangular umbo, in its
pentamerous leaf-fascicles and in the mottled dorsal surface of its
nut.
Plate XXXVIII.
Fig. 324, Cone and seed. Fig. 325, Magnified leaf-section.
65. PINUS SABINIANA
1833 P. Sabiniana Douglas in Trans. Linn. Soc. xvi. 747.
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