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Botany, should be interrogated respecting the P. Palustris or Swamp Pine,' 

 he would instantly revert to the P. Tseda, and his answers would be drawn 



from that species. 



Grows in dry sandy soils^ where the sub-soil however, though 2 or 3 feet 

 below the surface is usually of clay, covering nearly all of the ridges along 

 the coast of Carolina and Georgia within 120 miles of the ocean- Where- 

 ever the land becomes moist or fertile, the P. Taeda, and sometimes the P. 

 Ri^ida encroach upon it. 



Flowers April. 



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Leaves by fives, 

 slender, sheaths very 

 short; cones pendulous, 

 cylindrical, longer than 

 the leaf, scales loose. 



8. Strobus. Lin. 



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P. foliis quinis gra- 

 cihbus, vaginis brevis- 

 simis; strobilis pendu- 

 lis, cyiindraceis, folio 

 loiigioribus, squamis 

 lax is. 



Sp. pL 4. p. 501. Mich. 2. p. 205. Pursh, 2. p. 644. Nutt. 2. p. 223. 



Icon, Mich. arb. for. l*p* /03 7^ /<^ 



This tree attains a greater size than any other species of North-Amencan 

 Pine. It has been known to grow upwards of 140 feet in heightj and from 

 6 — 7 in diameter. The bark is smoother than that of the 3-leafed pines, and 

 the aspect of the tree somewhat different.. Leaves about 4 inches long? 

 pale^ ahnost glaucous green, 5 in a cluster, confined by a sheath scarcely a 

 line long. Co?zes solitary, much longer than the leaves, the scales very 

 loosely imbricate, and unarmed at the summit. . a - A 



The wood of this tree is very extensively used; it is soft, fine grained ana 

 light, and free from'turpentine; it is therefore used for all the interior work 

 of houses except the floors, and in the Northern States for the covering, and 

 . even fqr the frames. From its size and lightness it is preferred for the masts 

 of vessels to all other wood. To the yellow pine (P. Palustris) it is mferior 

 in strength, in hardness, and in durability. . ^ 



This tree perhaps attains its greatest size in the States of Maine, nie\^' 

 Hampshire and Vermont. In the Southern States it is confined to the ridges 

 of the Alleghany xVluuntains, and I believe there does not attain to any gr^^ 



size. 



Grows (on the declivities of Mountains) in damp sphagnous soils along 



the margins of streams. 

 Flowers April — May. 



*^ Abies. Foliis \ « Fir, Learn 



solilariis, hast distinct- \ solitary^ distinct (^t 

 is; ccni squamis Iwvi" base, s cedes of the cone 



bus, altenuatis, smooth, tapering* 



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