74 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



I. 1. Sp. 3. The Red or Norway Pine. P. resinosa. Aiton. 



Figured in Lambert's Pinus, Plate 13. 



Michaux ; Sylva, III, Plate 134. 



The Red or Norway pine has an erect trunk, taller and more 

 slender than that of the pitch pine, which it most nearly resem- 

 bles. The bark, which is much less rough, is in rather broad 

 scales of a reddish color. The long leaves are in twos, and the ' 

 cones are free from the bristling, rigid, sharp points, which dis- 

 tinguish those of the pitch pine. It may also be distinguished 

 at a distance by the greater size and length of the terminal 

 brushes of leaves. 



This tree is known in New England by the name of the Nor- 

 way pine, although it is entirely different from the tree so 

 called in Europe, which is a kind of spruce. On this account 

 Michaux * proposes to call it the Red pine, which name, he 

 says, is given it by the English settlers in Canada. According 

 to the elder Michaux, it is found from 4S° north, as far south as 

 Wilkesbarre, in Pennsylvania. Mr. Douglas found it in north- 

 west America, along with Lambert's pine. It is nowhere 

 abundant in Massachusetts, but is found, as is usually the case 

 elsewhere, in little detached clumps, in various parts of the 

 State. A grove of about twenty trees, in the edge of Newton, 

 on a cross road leading from Brookline to the Lower Falls, is 

 the only instance in which it occurs in the immediate neigh- 

 borhood of Boston. It is also found, as I am told by Rev. Mr. 

 Russell, forming a small wood in the town of Chelmsford. 



In Maine and New Hampshire, where it is often seen ming- 

 ling with the forests of white or of pitch pine, it is remarkable 

 for its tall trunk sometimes eighty feet in height, free from 

 branches, and of nearly a uniform size for forty or fifty feet or 

 more, and its smooth reddish bark. 



The branches are in distinct whorls, more regular than those 

 of the pitch pine, horizontal or inclining first downwards and 

 curving slightly upwards towards the extremities. The branch- 

 lets are stout and covered with a thick false bark, formed of 



* Sylva, III, 112. 



