54 KEY FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF TREES AND SHRUBS 



60. Needles 3 in a cluster. 



Pitch Pine, Yellow Pine 

 Plnus rigida Mill. 



60. Needles 2 in a cluster 6l 



6l. Needles about 2 inches long, 

 straight, bright green, 

 pyramidal tree or dwarf shrub. 



Mugo Pine, Swiss Mountain 

 Pine 



Plnus Mu£o Turra. 

 6l. Needles about 2 inches long, 

 twisted, silvery-green. 

 Scotch Pine 

 Pinus syl vestrts L. 

 6l. Needles 3-5 inches long, 

 stiff, dark green. 

 Black Pine 



Pinus Thunbergil Pari. 

 6l. Needles 4-6 inches long, 

 slender, flexible, bright 

 green. Red Pine 



Pinus resinosa Ait. 

 61. Needles 2-4 inches long, 

 stiff, margin rough. 

 Chinese Pine 



Pinus tabulae fornls Carr. 

 62. Needles about 1 inch long, cylin- 

 drical, several in a cluster, aris- 

 ing from wart-like, persistent 

 dwarf branches . .European Larch 



Larix decidua Mill. 

 62. Needles about \ inch long, flat, thin, 

 light green, set singly in 2 rows on 



the twig Bald Cypress 



Taxodlum disttchum. (L. ) Rich. 

 63. Leaves £ inch long, sharp-pointed, stiff, 

 opposite; the young stage of the Red ' 



Cedar Genus Junlperus. ... 66 



63. Leaves ^-1 inch long, square in cross 

 section, tips curved, bases running down 

 the twig: decurrent , leaves set closely 

 on the twig in alternate zones of short- 

 er and longer leaves. 



Crypt omeria 



Cryptomeria japonlca D. Don 



