200 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



OBISPO PINE. BISHOP'S PINE. 



California, Mendocino county south through the Coast ranges to San Luis Obispo county. 



A tree 24 to 36 meters in height, with atruuk 0.30 to 0.90 meter in diameter, or more often not exceeding 15 

 meters in height; cold peat bogs or barren, sandy gravel; always exposed to the winds and fogs of the ocean, and 

 not found above 2,000 feet elevation, reaching its greatest development iu Mendocino county; rare and local. 



Wood light, very strong and hard, rather coarse-grained, compact ; bauds of small summer cells broad, 

 resinous, resin passages few, not prominent; medullary rays numerous, thin; color, light brown, the thick sap-wood 

 nearly white; specific gravity, 0.4942; ash, 0.20. 



377. Pinus mitis, Michaux, 

 



Fl. Bor.-Am. ii, 204. Michaux f. Hist. Arb. Am. i, 52, t. 3; N. American Sylva, 3 ed. iii, 96, t. 137. Barton, Prodr. Fl. Philadelph. 

 93. Poiret, Suppl. iv, 417. London, Arboretum, iv, 2195, f. 2072-2070'. Antoiue, Conif. 16, t. 5, f. 1. Lindley in Penn. Cycl. xvii, 

 171. Spach, Hist, Veg. xi, 386. Torrey, Fl. N. York, ii, 229. Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 167. Knight, Syn. Conif. 26. Liudley &. 

 Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. London, v, 217. Carriere, Trait. Conif. 361 ; 2 ed. 472. Gordon, Pinetum, 170 ; 2 ed. 243 (excl. syn. 

 RoyJei). Cooper in Smithsonian Rep. 1858, 275. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 433. Curtis in Rep. Geological Surv. N. Carolina, 

 1860, iii, 19. Lesquereux in Owen's 2d Rep. Arkansas, 389. Wood, Cl. Book, 660; Bot. & Fl. 313. Heukel & Hochstetter, 

 Nadelholz. 23. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 470. Hoopes, Evergreens, 88. Parlatore inDe Candolle, Prodr. xvi 2 , 380. Young, 

 Bot. Texas, 516. Koch, Dendrologie, ii", 300. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 30. Broadhead in Coulter's Bot. Gazette, iii, 60. 

 Engelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad. iv, 184. Ridgway iu Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 88. 



P. echinata, Miller, Diet. 7 ed. No. 12. Marshall, Arbustum, 180? Wangenheim, Amer. 74. 

 P. Virglniana, var. echinata, Du Roi, Harbk. ii, 38. 

 P. Tceda, var. variabilis, Aitou, Hort. Kew. iii, 368. 



P. variabilis, Lambert, Pinus, 1 ed. i, 22, 1. 15 ; 2 ed. i, 25, 1. 1<> ; 3 ed. i, 29, 1. 14. Willdenow, Spec, iv, 498. Persoon, Syn. ii,. 

 578. Nouveau Duhamel, v, 235, t, 69, f. 2. Aiton, Hort. Kew. 2 ed. v, 316. Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. ii, 643. Smith in 

 Rees' Cycl. xxviii, No. 12. Barton, Coinpend. Fl. Philadelph. ii, 183. Nuttall, Genera, ii, 223. Elliott, Sk. ii,633. 

 Sprengel, Syst. ii, 886. Torrey, Compond. Fl. N. States, 360. Beck, Bot. 339. Eaton, Manual, 6 ed. 265. Forbes, 

 Pinetum Woburn. 35, t. 11. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 1558. Antoine, Conif. 15, t. 5, f. 2. Link in Linnsea, xv, 502. 

 Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 168 (excl. syn.). Darby, Bot. S. States, 514. 



P. rigida, Porcher, Resources S. States, 504 [not Miller]. 



YELLOW PINE. SHORT-LEAVED PINE. SPRUCE PINE. BULL PINE. 



Staten island, New York, south to the Chattahoochee region of western Florida, through the Gulf states to 

 Tennessee and eastern Texas, and through Arkansas to the Indian territory, southeastern Kansas, southern Missouri, 

 and in Union county, Illinois. 



A tree 24 to 30 meters in height, with a trunk 0.60 to 1.35 meter in diameter; light sandy soil or, less commonly, 

 along the low borders of swamps; forming west of the Mississippi river, mixed with oaks and other deciduous 

 trees, extensive forests; the only species of northern Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri, reaching its greatest 

 development in western Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and eastern Texas. 



Wood, varying greatly in quality and amount of sap, heavy, hard, strong, generally coarse-grained, compact; 

 bands of small summer cells broad, often occupying half the width of the annual growth; yery resinous, resiu 

 passages numerous, large ; medullary rays numerous, conspicuous ; color, orange, the sap-wood nearly white ; 

 specific gravity, 0.6104; ash, 0.29; largely manufactured into lumber, especially in the states west of the- 

 Mississippi river, and among yellow pines only inferior in value to that of P. palustris. 



378. Pinus glabra, Walter, 



Fl. Caroliniana, 237. Poiret in Lamarck, Diet, v, 342. Ravenel in Proc. Elliott Soc. i, 52. Chapman, Fl. S. States, 433. Porcher^ 

 Resources S. Forests, 506. Hoopes, Evergreens, 82. Vasey, Cat. Forest Trees, 30. Engelmann in Trans. St. Louis Acad. iv, 184. 



tP. mitis, var. paupera, Wood, Cl. Book, 660. 



