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3 The fir I send you is remarkably like the Sierra underlined: Grandis , but much smaller, seldom attaining a greater height
than fifty feet. In going East from the Sierra it was first met on the Hot Creek Range afterwards on all the higher rangers
thus far. It also occurs on the Wasatch Oquirrh mountains. Of the two pines, that with the larger cones is called Ulule Pine
by the Lettlers. It was first met on Carys Peak west of Walker Lake afterwards on all the mountains thus far that reached
an elevation of 10,000 feet or more. This I have no doubt is the species so rare on the Sierra which I found on the Eastern
slope opposite the head of O illegible Valley. Two years ago I saw it on the Wasatch above Salt Lake. I mean to send specimens
to Gray Hooker as they doubtless observed it on the Rocky Mountains. The other species is the underlined: Aristata of the
Southern portion of the Sierra above the Kern Kings rivers. Is but little known though exceedingly interesting. First met
on the Hot Creek Range more abundantly