8 TREES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Pinus Banksiana, Lamb. 



/'inns divaricata, Sudw. 



Scrub Pink. Gray Pine. Spruce Pine. Jack Pine. 



Habitat and Range. -Sterile, sandy soil; lowlands, boggy 

 plains, rocky slopes. 



Nova Scotia, northwesterly to the Athabasca river, and northerly 

 down the Mackenzie to the Arctic circle. 



Maine, Traveller mountain and Grand lake (G. L. Good- 

 ale); Beal's island on Washington county coast, Harrington, 

 Orland, and Cape Rosier (C. (1. Atkins); Schoodic peninsula 

 in Gouldsboro'j a forest 30 feet high (F. M. Day, E. L. Rand, 

 et al.) ; Flagstaff (Miss Kate Furbush) ; east branch of Penob- 

 scot (Mrs. Haines) ; the Forks (Miss Fanny E. Hoyt) ; Lake 

 Umbagog (Wm. Brewster); New Hampshire, around the 

 shores of Lake Umbagog, on points extending into the lake, 

 rare (Wm. Brewster in lit., 1899); Welch mountains {Bull. 

 Ton\ Bot. Club, XVIII, 150); Vermont, rare, but few trees 

 at each station ; Monkton in Addison county (R. E. Robinson) ; 

 Fairfax, Franklin county (Bates) ; Starkesboro (Pringle). 



West through northern New York, northern Illinois, and Michi- 

 gan to Minnesota. 



Habit. Usually a low tree, 15-30 feet high and 6-8 inches 

 in diameter at the ground, but under favorable conditions, as 

 upon the wooded points and islands of Lake Umbagog, attain- 

 ing a height of 50-60 feet, with a diameter of 10-15 inches. 

 Extremely variable in habit. In thin soils and upon bleak 

 sites the trunk is for the most part crooked and twisted, the 

 head scrubby, stunted, and variously distorted, resembling in 

 shape and proportions the pitch pine under similar condi- 

 tions. In deeper soils, and in situations protected from the 

 winds, the stem is erect, slender, and tapering, surmounted 

 by a stately head with long, flexible branches, scarcely less 

 regular in outline than the spruce. Foliage yellowish-green, 

 bunched at the ends of the branchlets. 



