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vegetable deposits on thewestern flank of the Cordille-ras of New Albion, at a greatelevation above the level ofthe sea, and 1600 ft. belowthe verge of perpetual snow,in the parallel of 40° N. lat.

On the less elevated moun-tains near the coast, wherethe temperature is higher, butmore uniform, in the parallelof 31° north, in decomposedgranite schistus, or gravellysoils,the trees are smaller andfew, inhabiting the summitsof the mountains only. Thewood is white, soft, even-grained, and perhaps not verydurable. (Lamb. Pin., t, 80.;and Comp, to the Sot. Mag.,ii. p. 150.) In the Companionto the Botanical Magazine arepublished a number of lettersfrom Douglas to Sir W. J.Hooker, by which it appearsthat Douglas discovered thispine in 1826, and named it incompliment to his early friendand patron Mr. Sabine; but,unfortunately, he lost his spe-cimens, together with the notes hehis return northward. In a lettervember 23. 1831, after stating that

had made, in crossing a rapid stream, ondated Monterey, Upper California, No-he had found another tree of this species,he says, “ I sent to London adetailed account of this mostbeautiful tree, to be publishedin the Horticultural Transac-tions .” This account never ar-rived ; but the cones and spe-

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cimens were received in 1832;and plants were raised from theseeds, in the Horticultural So-ciety’s Garden, that year. Ofone of these, which, in 1837,