60 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



SECTION FIRST. 



THE PINE AND FIR TRIBE. ABIE TIN JE. Richard. 



Of this section there are found growing in Massachusetts, 1. 

 The White Pine ; 2. The Red or Norway Pine ; 3. The Pitch 

 Pine; 4. The Hemlock Spruce; 5. The Black or Double 

 Spruce ; 6. The White or Single Spruce ; 7. The Balsam Fir ; 

 8. The Double Balsam Fir or Fraser's Fir ; and 9. The Amer- 

 ican Larch or Hacmatack. 



I. 1. The Pine. Pbius. L. 



The true pines are characterized by having their leaves in a 

 sheath, 2, 3, or 5 together ; and by the large size and hardness 

 of the cones. Forty -two species are described by Loudon as 

 having been introduced into England. They are all evergreen, 

 generally of large size, and eminently useful and ornamental. 

 Twenty-four * are natives of North America ; of which three 

 are found in Massachusetts; distinguished by the number of 

 leaves in a sheath ; these are either 5, on the White Pine ; 3, 

 on the Pitch Pine ; or 2, on the Red Pine. 



I. 1. Sp. 1. The White Pine. Pinus Strobus. L. 



Figured in Lambert's Pinus ; Plate 32. 



Michaux ; Sylva, III, Plate 145. 

 Loudon ; Arboretum, VIII, Plate 329. 



This tree is easily distinguished by its leaves being in fives, 

 by its very long cones composed of loosely arranged scales, 

 and, when young, by the smoothness and delicate light green 

 color of the bark. It is known throughout New England by the 

 name of white pine, which is given it on account of the white- 

 ness of the wood. In England, it is called the Weymouth Pine. 



The white pine is the tallest and most stately tree of our for- 

 ests. It rises in a single straight column, tapering gradually 



* Lambertiana, strobus, monticola, leioph)ila, Montezuma?, radiata, tuberculata, 

 muricata, Californiana, Llaveana, patula, teocote, australis, Coulteri, Sabiniana, 

 ponderosa, serotina, rigida, taeda, resinosa, pungens, mitis, inops, Banksiana. 



