The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . heights. GIGANTIC PINE. PiNUS Lambertiana. Folds quinis rigidis scabriuscuUs, vaginis hrevis-simis, strobilis crassis lovgisslmis cylindraccis, squamis laxis dilaiailsinferioribus subpatulis. PiNUS Lambertiana.—Douglas, in Lin. Trans., vol. xv. p. 500. Lamb.,Iin., (ed. 2,) vol. i. t. 34. Lawsons Manual, p. 3
The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . heights. GIGANTIC PINE. PiNUS Lambertiana. Folds quinis rigidis scabriuscuUs, vaginis hrevis-simis, strobilis crassis lovgisslmis cylindraccis, squamis laxis dilaiailsinferioribus subpatulis. PiNUS Lambertiana.—Douglas, in Lin. Trans., vol. xv. p. 500. Lamb.,Iin., (ed. 2,) vol. i. t. 34. Lawsons Manual, p. 3G1. Loudon, Ar-boret., vol. iv. p. 2288, figs. 2206 and 2207, (reduced,) and figs. 2204and 2205, natural size. Tujs majestic pine, according to Mr. Douglas, its discoverer,covers large districts a1)()ut one hundred miles from the bordersof the Pacific, in latitude 43° north, and continues to the southas far as 40°. lie first met Avith it toward the sources of theWahlamet, (called also Multnomah.) It grew sparingly uponlow hills, and was scattered over an undulating countrj east ofa, range of mountains which terminate at Cape Oxford, in a soilof j)ure sand, a[)[)arently incapable of supporting any vegetation,bnt here it attained its greatest magnitude and perfeeted abun- Fiiiu? Lambertlajia. (ritjantir Pt/w //// )//i/i////i</i/t- il4- /.,i;/;/ii/-f GIGANTIC r I N E. 181 dance of seed. The trees did not form dense loivsls. in tlicnicanner of the other pines of tlie iiortliwest coast, hnt wi-ri seenscattered smgly over the plains in the manner of some CaH-fornian species. This stately species attains to a heidit of to l^tio feet, andvaries in circumference from twenty to sixty f-ct. A spcciiutnoverturned by the winds was in length two inni(hc<l and lifUcnfeet; its circumference at three feet from the ground was lllh-seven feet nine inches, and at one hundred and tliiii\-li)in H-ctfrom the ground, seventeen feet five inches. The trunl^ |ncscntsan erect shaft,
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