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the tree produces leaves sometimes scarcely more than one and 

 a half or two inches long, and very slender, while others have 

 foliage longer and stouter than those of P. Halepensis. 



It is also found growing on the Colchis Mountains, in Syria, 

 and on the coast of Greece. 



No. 6. PiNus iNOPS, Solandevj the New Jersey Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Virginiana, Miller. 

 „ „ variabilis. Lamb. 



Leaves, in twos, short, rigid, and sharp-pointed, from two 

 to two inches and a half long, bright green, and scattered 

 equally all over the younger branches ; sheaths, short, entire, and 

 a quarter of an inch long. Branches, irregularly placed on the 

 stem, twisted, with the more slender branchlets, pendulous, and 

 the young shoots covered with a fine, violet, glaucous bloom ; 

 buds, blunt-pointed and resinous, the stem and larger branches 

 emitting tufts of leaves or abortive shoots. Cones, oblong- 

 conical, tapering slightly to a blunt point, and drooping, from 

 two and three quarters to three inches long, and an inch 

 and a quarter broad, very hard, and of a glossy, yellowish- 

 brown colour, with short, thick footstalks, and usually solitary. 

 Scales, elevated, pyramidal, four-sided, terminating in an awl- 

 shaped, strong, projecting prickle, pointing outwards, or slightly 

 reflexed, half an inch broad, and nearly all of a size. Seeds, 

 very small, with a narrow wing, rather more than half an inch 

 long. Seed-leaves from six to eight in number. 



A low tree, with a spreading top, thirty to forty feet high, 

 with a dark- coloured bark, full of resinous matter. 



It inhabits the interior of North America, and is found from 

 New Jersey to Carolina, where the soil is poor and sandy ; it 

 is also found in Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsyl- 

 vania, but not found north of the Hudson River. 



Timber of little use except for fuel. 



