Handbook of Trees of the Northern States and Cana 



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This valuable timber-tree occasionally at- 

 tains till' iieiglit of 100 ft., or somewhat more, 

 with irregular wide inrauiidal or rounded 



head and straight cu 

 thickness. Its bark 

 color with wide irrt 



trunk ;}-4 ft. in 

 n reddish brown 

 jcaly plates and 



ridges. It is ])articularly abundant and well 

 developed in the lower Mississippi basin and 

 probably no other Pine produces as much 

 lumber for use in the central-western states as 

 this. 



The wood, as a hard Pine, is considered only 

 second to that of the Long-leaf Pine in value, 

 and in being somewhat softer and less resin- 

 ous than that is preferred to it for many 

 uses. It is rather hea^'y and hard, a cu. ft. 

 weighing 38.04 lbs., and of a reddish yellow 

 color with thick lighter sap-wood. It is 

 largely manufactured into lumber for interior 

 finishing and general construction purposes. 2 



Leaves 3-ij In. long in clusters of 2 (occasion- 

 ally 3) with persistent sheaths, rather slender, 

 flexible, dark green ; hranchlets rough. Flowers: 

 staminate yellowish purple, about % in. long, in 

 crowded clusters : pistillate pale rose-color, single 

 or in whorls of 2 or 3 with stout stems. Cones 

 oblong-ovoid, 11/2-2 in. long, single or few to- 

 gether, subsessile, lateral and with scales thickened 

 at apex and having a prominent transverse ridge 

 and weak prickle ; seeds round-triangular, about 

 three-sixteenths in. long, mottled and with ample 

 oblique wing broadest near the center. 



1. Syn. Pinus mitis Michx. 



2. A. W., Ill, 75. 



