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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " Bishop Pine," for our Prickle-cone, swamp-loving species, is a very inappropriate name. What is its significance? For what reason applied? Merely and solely because the little outlying dwarfed specimens of this species first discovered were in the vicinity of San Luis Obispo. " Soledad Pine," for our Torrey Pine, is another misnomer, inasmuch as the trees are found as well in the San Dieguito Canon as in that of Soledad. The eminent propriety of changing this name to Torrey Pine is further enforced by the late discovery of the species on one of the Channel Islands, so that it is no longer in any sense the " Soledad Pine." In the foregoing " List" and in the " Extended Descriptions," I have generally given two vernacular names to each species, one based, usually, on characters, the other on habitat or place of growth. By one or the other every tree cannot fail to be detected by the common observer, especially if he considers the other previous classifications leading up to it. Of the importance of early selecting and thoroughly establishing appropriate popular names, I need address no words to those who have been confused by a half dozen misnomers for the same kind of tree. I remember when Dr. Engelmann was last on this coast the vernacular names gave him great annoyance, and it was proposed to him that a conference of botanists and lumbermen should examine and settle the popular nomenclature; but, owing to want of time and unity of action, the important work was left undone. INVESTIGATION OF YELLOW PINE (Pinusponderosa) AND BLACK PINE (P.Je/reyi). SOLICITING INFORMATION. Having briefly described in the proper place the Broken-Cone Pines? ponderosa and Jeffreyi?and indicated the principal forms or varieties of them, in view of the fact that they comprise the ...