TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Plate I. Larix Americ ina. 



1. Branch with sterile and fertile 



flowers. 



2. Sterile flowers. 



3. Differenl views of stamens. 



4. Ovuliferous scale with ovules. 



5. Fruiting branch. 



(i. < pen cone. 



7. < ione-scale \\ ith seeds. 



8. Leaf. 



'.. ( Iross-section of leaf. 



PINUS. 



The leaves are of two kinds, primary and secondary; the 

 primary are thin, deciduous scales, in the axils of which the 

 secondary leaf-buds stand; the inner scales of those leaf-buds 

 form a loose, deciduous sheath which encloses the secondary 

 or foliage leaves, which in our species are all minutely ser- 

 rulate. 



Pinus Strobus, L. 



White Pine. 



Habitat and Range. In fertile soils; moist woodlands or 

 dry uplands. 



Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, through Quebec and Ontario, to 

 Lake Winnipeg. 



New England, - -common, from the vicinity of the seacoast 

 to altitudes of 2500 feet, forming extensive forests. 



South along the mountains to Georgia, ascending to 2500 feet in 

 the Adirondack^ and to 4300 in North Carolina; west to Minne- 

 sota and Iowa. 



Habit. The tallest tree and the stateliest conifer of the 

 New England forest, ordinarily from 50 to 80 feet high and 2-4 

 feet in diameter at the ground, but in northern New England, 

 where patches of the primeval forest still remain, attaining a 

 diameter of 3-7 feet and a height ranging from 100 to 150 feet, 

 rising in sombre majesty far above its deciduous neighbors ; 

 trunk straight, tapering very gradually ; branches nearly hori- 

 zontal, wide-spreading, in young trees in whorls usually of five, 

 the whorls becoming more or less indistinct in old trees ; 



