THE PINE SUB-FAMILY. 



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rigid, stout, pale green color. Cones, 3 inches long, yel- 

 lowish-brown, ovate, sessile, clustered in whorls; with 

 thick, woody scales, armed at the apex with stout prickles, 

 which are incurved on the upper scales, and recurved on 

 the lower ones. Branches, rigid and irregular ; with cy- 

 lindrical, obtuse, brownish buds, covered with white resin. 



Fig. 13. CONE OF PINUS PUNGENS. 



Seeds, rather small and very dark colored. 

 to 8. 



Cotyledons, 6 



This species, in favorable soils, attains the height of from 

 40 to 50 feet, and is confined to a somewhat limited habit- 

 at. It is found on the "mountains, rarely west of the 

 Blue Ridge, Georgia to North Carolina, and northward." 

 (Chapman.) 



In regard to this limitation Michaux, in describing it, 



