KUCALYPTUS TREES. 211 
Pinus Pattoniana, Parl. — California; five to six 
thousand feet above sea-level. A very fine fir, three 
hundred feet high, with a perfectly straight stem. 
The wood is hard, of a reddish color, with handsome 
veins ; but poor in resin. 
Pinus patula, Schiede and Deppe.—In Mexico ; at 
an elevation of eight to nine thousand feet. <A grace- 
ful pine, eighty feet high. 
Pinus pendula, Soland. (P. microcarpa, Lamb).— 
-Small-coned American Larch ; Black Larch or Tam- 
arack. Frequent in Vermont and New Hampshire. 
A pine of pyramidal growth, one hundred feet high. 
The timber is white, heavy, resinous, and as highly 
valued as that of the Common Larch. 
Pinus picea, Du Roi ( P. Abies, L.). — Norway 
Spruce, Fichte. Middle and Northern Europe and 
Northern Asia; rising from the plains to an elevation 
of four thousand five hundred feet, and forming ex- 
tensive forests. The tree attains a height of one hun- 
dred and fifty feet, or even more, and furnishes an 
excellent timber for building and furniture ; common- 
ly known under the name of White Deal. It also pro- 
duces the Burgundy Pitch in quantity, while the 
bark is used for tanning. Though enduring our dry 
Summers, this spruce would have to be restricted for 
timber purposes to the damp mountains. 
Pinus Pinaster, Soland.— Cluster Pine. On the 
shores of the Mediterranean. The tree is of quick 
growth, and rises to sixty feet in height; the wood 
is soft and resinous; it yields largely the French tur- 
pentine. Among the best pines for consolidation of 
sandy coast land, and converting rolling sands into 
pasture and agricultural land. For ease of rearing 
