CONIFERS. 



SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Ill 



PINUS T^JDA. 



Loblolly Pine. Old Field Pine. 



Leaves in 3-leaved clusters, slender, rigid, pale green, from 6 to 9 inches in length. 

 Cones usually ovate-oblong, from 3 to 5 inches long, their scales armed with stout 

 recurved prickles. 



Pinus Taeda, Linnaeus, Spec. 1000 (excl. hab. Canada), 

 (1753). — Muenchhausen, Hausv. v. 219. — Du Roi, 

 Harbk. Baumz. ii. 48. — Wangenheim, Beschrieb. Nord- 

 am. Holz. 210 ; Nordam. Holz. 41. — Evelyn, Silva, ed. 

 Hunter, i. 277. — Schoepf, Mat. Med. Amer. 142. — Burgs- 

 dorf , Anleit. pt. ii. 162. — Castiglioni, Viag. negli Stati 

 Uniti, ii. 312. — Moench, Meth. 365. — WiUdenow, Berl. 

 Baumz. 210 ; Spec. iv. pt. i. 498. — Michaux, Fl. Bor.- 

 Am. ii. 205. — Lambert, Pinus, i. 23, t. 16, 17. — Per- 

 soon, Syn. ii. 578. — Desfontaines, Hist. Arb. ii. 612. — 

 Du Mont de Courset, Bot. Cult. ed. 2, vi. 460. — Michaux, 

 f . Hist. Arb. Am. i. 98, t. 9. — Nouveau Duhamel, v. 245, 

 t. 75, f. 2. — Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii. 644. — Nuttall, 

 Gen. ii. 223. — Hayne, Dendr. Fl. 174. — Elliott, Sk. ii. 

 636. — Sprengel, Syst. iii. 887. — Lawson & Son, Agric. 

 Man. 351 ; List No. 10, Abietinece, 34. — Forbes, Pine- 

 tum Woburn, 43, 1. 14. — Antoine, Conif. 25, t. 7, f. 1. — 

 Link, Linncea, xv. 503. — Spach, Hist. Veg. xi. 391. — 

 Griffith, Med. Bot. 604. — Gihoul, Arb. Bis. 32. — End- 

 licher, Syn. Conif. 164. — Knight, Syn. Conif. 30. — 

 Lindley & Gordon, Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 217. — Die- 

 trich, Syn. v. 399. — Carriere, Traite Conif. 344. — Gor- 

 don, Pinetum, 210. — Courtin, Fam. Conif. 81. — Chap 



man, Fl. 433. — Curtis, Rep. Geolog. Surv. N. Car. 1860, 

 iii. 22. — Henkel & Hochstetter, Syn. Nadelh. 66. — 

 (Nelson) Senilis, Pinacece, 136. — Hoopes, Evergreens, 

 122. — Se'ne'clauze, Conif. 130. — Parlatore, De Candolle 

 Prodr. xvi. pt. ii. 393. — K. Koch, Dendr. ii. pt. ii. 304. — 

 Nordlinger, Fortsbot. 399. — Bentley & Trimen, Med. PL 

 iv. 259, t. 259. — Engelmann, Trans. St. Louis Acad. iv. 

 183. — Veitch, Man. Conif. 172. — Lawson, Pinetum 

 Brit. i. 89, t. 12. — Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am. 10th 

 Census U. S. ix. 197. — Lauche, Deutsche Dendr. ed. 2, 

 109. — Schlibeler, Virid. Norveg. i. 393. — Watson & 

 Coulter, Gray's Man. ed. 6, 490. — Mayr, Wald. Nordam. 

 116, t. 7, f . — Beissner, Handb. Nadelh. 265. — Masters, 

 Jour. R. Hort. Soc. xiv. 241. — Hansen, Jour. R. Hort. 

 Soc. xiv. 397 {Pinetum Danicum). — Coulter, Contrib. 

 V. S. Nat. Herb. ii. 554 {Man. PI. W. Texas). — Koehne, 

 Deutsche Dendr. 35. — Britton & Brown, HI. Fl. i. 53, f . 

 118. — Mohr, Bull. No. 13, Div. Forestry V. S. Dept. 

 Agric. 105, t. 17-20 {The Timber Pines of the Southern 

 U. S.). 

 Pinus Taeda, a tenuifolia, Aiton, Hort. Kew. iii. 368 

 (1789). 



A tree, with a stout tap-root, and thick lateral roots descending deeply or spreading near the 

 surface according to the nature of the soil, usually from eighty to one hundred feet in height, with a 

 tall straight trunk about two feet in diameter, and in wet ground often tapering gradually from the 

 slightly thickened base, or occasionally one hundred and seventy feet high, with a trunk five feet in 

 diameter free of limbs for seventy or eighty feet above the ground, and with short stout much 

 divided branches, the lower spreading horizontally, the upper ascending and forming a compact round- 

 topped head. The bark of the trunk is from three quarters of an inch to an inch and a half in 

 thickness, bright red-brown, and irregularly divided by shallow fissures into broad flat ridges covered 

 with large thin closely appressed scales. The winter branch-buds are widened from the base to above 

 the middle, acute or acuminate at the apex, covered with ovate bright chestnut-brown scales contracted 

 into long slender darker colored tips and separated on the margins into short filaments, the terminal 

 bud, which is often twice as large as the lateral buds, being from three quarters of an inch to an 

 inch in length and an eighth of an inch thick. The branchlets are slender and glabrous, and during 

 their first season are brown tinged with yellow, covered with a glaucous bloom and clothed with the 

 strongly reflexed ovate acute light chestnut-brown inner scales of the branch-buds, which usually fall 

 during the autumn and winter, leaving their thickened bases to roughen for many years the branches, 

 which grow gradually darker in their second year. The leaves are borne in clusters of three, with 



