MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 



635 



squamariim aculeis rec 

 tis, tenuissimis. 



spines 



of the scales 



straight, slender. 



Mich. 2. p. 205. Sp. pi. 4. p. 499- Pursh, 2. p. 643. Kutt. 2. p. 223. 

 Icon. Mich. arb. for. 1. p. 86. 



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A small tree, sparingly disseminated in close or damp poor soils, rarely 

 exceeding 30 — 40 feet in height, or 12 — 15 inches in diameter. Leaves 3 

 in each sheath 6 — 8 inches long. Cone 3 tq 4 inches long, globular, fre- 

 quently opposite on the small branches, with the scales closely imbricate, 

 not opening and dischdrging the seed before the second year; sometimes, ac- 

 cording to Mich, not until the third or fourth yean 



This species in habit, leaf, bark and colour, resembles the young or stint- 

 ed loblolly pines (P. Taeda) so much, that the cone alone appears to distin- 

 guish them. The cone resembles that of G. Rigida in some respects, but it 

 is larger and more globular, and I think the leaves are longer than those of 

 that species. 



Grows around ponds and in damp soils. 



Flowers April. • • 



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5. PuNGENS. Lambert. 



P. 



foliis 



geminis 



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brevibus, acutis; strobi- 

 lis ovato-conicis, acu- 

 leis squamarum elonga- 

 tis, subulatis, incurvis, 

 inferioribus reflexis. 



Leaves 



by 



pairs 



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short, acute; cones o 



vate-conical, spines of 

 the scales lonsr, subu- 



late, incurved, the Io>\ 



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er reflexed. 



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diameter 



Pursh, 2. p. 643. Nutt. 2. p. 223. 

 Icon. Mich. arb. for. 1. p. 6l. 



A tree 40—50 feet high, 1 

 branches. Leaves 2 — 3 inches long, 2 in each sheath, somewhat rigid. 

 Cones ovate, sessile, 3 — 4 in a cluster. Scales closely imbricate, armed 

 ^ith large, rigid, acute spines. 



Of this tree J have no personal knowledge: I am even uncertain whether 

 it grows within the limits assigned to this work. The knob of the Alleghany 

 ^fountains however, generally known as the Table Mountain, is in Souih- 

 Carolina, Mr. Nuttall considers its habitat as confined to the high ridges 

 ^ound the sources of the Catawba, North-Carolina; and perhaps from some 

 summit hi that neighbourhood it tuay have taken its popular name of Table 

 -Mountain Pine. 



^ I think it probable, however, that it may be found on some of the high 

 ndges of the Cherokee Mountains. 



Flower 



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