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grasshoppers, their most esteemed aliment-we shall cease to regard the cultivation of pine
trees for their fruit an absurdity.
PINUS LAMBERTIANA. The sugar pine.
P. LAMBERTIANA, Dougl. in Line. Trans. 15, p. 500.
P. LAMBERTIANA, Dougl. Lamb. Pinus, Ed. 2, 1, p. 57, t. 34.
P. LAMBERTIANA, End l. iyn. Coni. p. 1 5 0.
P. LAMBERTIANA, Loud. Arboret 4, _p. 2288, figs. 2203-2207.
P. LAMBERTIANA, Nutt. Sylva 3, p. 122, t. 14.
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Fig. 14. Cone of P. Lambertiana, I natural size.
Fig. 14a, b. Leaves, scale, and seeds of do., natural size.
Fig. 14c. Short leaves of do., natural size.
This pine, undoubtedly the most magnificent species of the genus to which it belongs, is
widely distributed over the country lying between the Rocky mountains and the Pacific, and is
there universally known as the sugar pine. Its range extends from the Mexican line on the
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