198 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



PITCH PINE. 



Valley of the Saiiit John's river, New Brunswick, to the northern shores of lake Ontario, south through the 

 Atlantic states to northern Georgia, extending to the western slope of the Alleghany mountains in West Virginia 

 and Kentucky (Pineville, Bell county, De Friesc). 



A tree 12 to 24 meters in height, with a trunk O.CO to 0.90 meter in diameter ; dry, sandy, barren soil, or less 

 co.mmonly in deep, cold swamps ; very common. 



"Wood light, soft, not strong, brittle, coarse-grained, compact ; bands of small summer cells broad, very 

 resinous, conspicuous, resin passages numerous, not large ; medullary rays numerous, obscure ; color, light brown 

 or red, the thick sap-wood yellow or often nearly white ; specific gravity, 0.5151 ; ash, 0.23 ; largely used for fuel, 

 charcoal, and occasionally m anufactured into coarse lumber. 



NOTE. Upon the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, this species is now greatly injured by the attacks of the destructive 

 caterpillar of the pine moth (lietina fruslrana, Scudder in Pub. Massachusetts Ag. Soc. 1883 & t). 



372. Pinus serotina, Michaux, 



Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 205. AVilldonow, Spec, iv, 493. Persoon, Syn. ii, 578. Michanx f. Hist. Arb. Am. i, 86, t. 7; N. American Sylva, 3 

 ed. iii, 117, t. 142. Nouveau Duhaniel. v,24(:>, t. 75, f. 1. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 643. Poiret, Suppl. iv, 417. Nuttall, Genera, 

 ii, 223. Lambert, Pinus, 1 ed. iii, 35, t. lg. Elliott, Sk. ii, 634. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 887. Torrey, Compend. Fl. N. States, 360. 

 Beck, Bot. 339. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 2i>5. London, Arboretum, iv, 2242, f. 2127-2131. Forbes, Pinetum Woburn. 47, t. 16. 

 Eaton i- Wright, Bot. 359. Autoino, Couif. 27, t. 8, f. 2. Lindley in Peun. , Cycl. xvii, 172. Link in Linnsea, xv, 504. Spach, 

 Hist. Veg. xi, 389. Gihoul, Arb. Resin. 32. Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 163. Knight, Syn. Conif. 30. Lindley &Gordon in Jour. Hort. 

 Soc. London, v, 217. Carriere, Trait. Couif. 341 ; 2 ed. 449. Darby, Bot. S. States, 514. Gordon, Pinetum, 209 ; 2 ed. 285. 

 Chapman, Fl. S. States, 433. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 1860, iii, 21. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadclholz. 70. 

 Nelson, Piuacese, 129. Parlatore in De Caudolle, Prodr. xvi-, 394. Koch, Dendrologie, ii*, 305. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 31. 



P. Tceda, var. alopecuroidea, Aiton, Hort.Kew.2 ed. v, 317. London, Arboretum, iv, 2237. 



P. rigida, var. serotina, London, Encycl. PI. 979, f. 1824-1827. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858,257. Hoopes, Evergreens, 

 120. Engelmann in Trans. St. Lonis Acad. iv, 183. 



POND PINE. 



North Carolina, south near the coast to the head of the Saint John's river, Florida. 



A tree 12 to 24 meters in height, with a trunk O.fiO to 0.90 meter in diameter; inundated borders of streams 

 and ponds in low, peaty soil ; not common. 



Wood heavy, soft, not strong, brittle, coarse-grained, compact ; bands of small summer cells broad, forming 

 fully one-half the annual growth, very resinous, dark colored, conspicuous, resin passages few, large ; medullary 

 rays numerous, obscure ; color, dark orange, the thick sap-wood pale yellow ; specific gravity 0.7942 ; ash, 0.17. 



373. Pinus inops, Aiton, 



Hort. Kew. iii, 3G7 ; 2 ed. v, 316. Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 204. Lambert, Pinus, 1 ed. i, 18, t, 13 ; 2 ed. i, 21, t, 14 ; 3 ed. i, 25, t. 12. 

 Willdeno w, Spec, iv, 496 ; Enuru. 988 ; Berl. Baumz. 266. Persoon, Syn. ii, 578. Michanx f. Hist. Arb. Am. i, 58, t. 4 ; N. American 

 Sylva, 3 ed. iii, 103, t. 139. Nouveau Duliamel, v, 238, t. 69, f. 1. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 641. Smith in Rees' Cycl. xxviii, No. 

 10. Barton, Prodr. Fl. Philadelph. 93. Compend. Fl. Philadelph. ii, 183. Nnttall, Genera, ii, 223. Hayne, Dend. Fl. 173. 

 Elliott, Sk. ii, 633. Sprengel, Syst. ii, 886. Torrey, Compeud. Fl. N. States, 359. Audubon, Birds, t. 97. Beck, Bot. 338. Eaton, 

 Manual, 6 ed. 265. Bon Jard. 1837, 976. London, Arboretum, iv, 2192, f. 2068-2071. Forbes, Pinetum Woburn. 15, t. 4. Hooker, 

 Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 161, in part. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 358. Antoine, Conif. 17, t. 5, f. 3. Lindley in Penn. Cycl. xvii, 171. Link in 

 Linnsea, xv, 500. Spach, Hist. Veg. xi, 386. Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 167. Kuight, Syn. Conif. 26. Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. 

 Soc. London, v, 217. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 361 ; 2ed. 471. Darlington, Fl. Cestrica, 3 ed. 290. Darby, Bot. S. States, 514. Gordon, 

 Pinetum, 167 ; 2 ed. 238. Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 2 r >7. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 433. Curtis in Rep. Geological Snrv. N. 

 Carolina, 1860, iii, 20. Wood, Cl. Book, 661 ; Bot. & Fl. 313. Henkel & Hochstetter, Nadelholz. 22. Nelson, Pinaceae, 113. Gray, 

 Manual N. States, 5 ed. 470. Hoopes, Evergreens, 84. Parlatore in. De Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 380 (excl. syu. rariabilis). Vasey, 

 Cat. Forest Trees, 30. Veitch, Manual Conif. 158. 



P. VirginiaiM; Miller, Gard. Diet. 7 ed. No. 9. Du Roi, Obs. Bot. 43; Harbk. 2 ed. ii, 35. Marshall, Arbustum, 102. 

 Wangenheirn, Arner. 74. Koch, Dendrologie, ii 3 , 299. 



P. Ttedd, var. Virginiana, Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 340. 



