PINE FAMILY. 823 
Subkingdom SPERMOPHYTA. True Flowering and 
Seed-bearing Plants. (Phanerogamae.) 
Class GYMNOSPERMAE (ARCHISPERMAE), 
PINACEAE (CONIFERAE). Pine Family 
PINUS 1. 8p. Pl.2: 1000, 17538. PINK. 
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Largest genus of the order, with about 75 species belonging to the cooler and 
warmer parts of the northern temperate zone. In the Old World about 25 species; 
in the New World about double that number. North America has 37 species, 
Eastern North America, 11. Mostly gregarious trees of large size. 
Pinus taeda L. Sp. Pl. 2: 1000. 1753. 
LOBLOLLY PINE. OLD FIELD PINE, ROSEMARY PINE, 
EM. Sk, 2:636. Gray, Man, ed, 6,490, Chap. Fl. 433. Conlter, Contr. Nat. Herb. 
2: 554, 
Carolinian and Lonisianian areas, Delaware to North Carolina and Florida west 
to eastern Texas and southern Arkansas. 
ALABAMA: Mountain region to Coast plain. From the coast to the Warrior table- 
land, Cullman County, 800 feet. Flowers early to latter part of March, 
Type locality: “lab. in Virginiae, Canadae paludosis.”’ 
Economic uses: Important. Valuable timber tree; the largest among the South- 
ern timber pines. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Pinus heterophylla (Ell.) Sudworth, Bull. Torr. Club, 20:45, 1893. 
SLASH PINE, CUBAN PINE, 
Pinus taeda var. heterophylla Fll. Sk, 2:636, 1821, 
P. cubensis Griseb. Mem. Am. Acad. 8, pt. 2:530, 1863. 
P, elliottii Engelm, Trans. St. Louis Acad, 4: 186, t, 7-5. 1878-1886. 
Chap. FI. Suppl. 650; ed. 3, 457, 
Cuba, BriTisH HONDURAS. 
Louisianian area, Coast of South Carolina to Florida, and along the Gulf coast 
to eastern Louisiana, 
ALABAMA: Outlying islands, Coast plain, and scatteringly throughout the Lower 
Pine region in the tlat woods and swamps bordering the pine-barren streams. Mobile 
and Baldwin counties. Washington County, Yellowpine. Escambia County, Wal- 
lace. Flowers January and February. 
Type locality: ‘*Along the marshes near the mouths of the fresh water rivers, (at 
least in Georgia), this pine is very common.” 
Economic uses: Of greatest value for its timber and for its resin. 
Herb. Geol. Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
Pinus palustris Mill. Gard. Dict. ed. &, no. 14. 1768, 
LONGLEAF PINE, SOUTHERN YELLOW PINE. PiTcH PINK. HEARY PINE. 
Pinus australis Michx. f. Hist. Arb. Am. 1:64, ¢. 6. 1810. 
Ell. Sk. 2:637. Gray, Man, ed. 6,491. Chap. Fl. 434. Coulter, Contr. Nat. Herb, 
2:554. 
Louisianian and Carolinian areas. From Cape Canaveral and Bay Biscayne, 
Florida, north along the coast to southern Virginia (Suffolk County), and westward 
to the Trinity Valley, Texas. 
ALABAMA: Coast plain to the Mountain region to an altitude of near 2,000 feet, 
forming the immense forests of the Coast and Central Pine belt, and lesser ones in 
the Coosa Valley. From Talladega County to the Georgia and Alabama State line. 
Scattered abundantly through the Metamorphic mountains, where this species 
ascends in Clay County to its greatest elevation on the Chehawhaw Mountain, 2,000 
feet. More sparsely diffused in the lower part of the Warrior basin with an outly- 
ing forest in Walker County (South Lowell). Flowers middle of March. 
Type locality not ascertained. Michaux’s locality: “Hab.a Carolina septentri- 
onali ad Floridam presertim maritimis.” 
Economic uses: Of greatest importance fo. ts timber, as well as for its resin. 
Herb. Geol, Surv. Herb. Mohr. 
