SHORTLEAF PINE; YELLOW PINE (Pinus echinata, Mill.). 

 80 to 120 feet. Slender-trunked tree with round or pyramidal 

 head. Bark thick, checked into cinnamon-red, scaly plates. 

 Wood orange or brown, with pale sapwood, coarse, heavy, 

 durable, strong, used for lumber. Sap yields turpentine. 

 Leaves blue-green, 3 to 5 inches long, in 2's and 3's, subtended 

 by close sheath of long, silvery scales. Flowers sub- terminal, 

 crowded, purplish: staminate orange-brown at first, with 

 abundant pollen; pistillate on opposite, short stems, greenish 

 at first. Fruits oblong-conical, often curved, clustered, about 

 2 inches long, scales with curved prickles, soon shed. Dist.: 

 Connecticut to Florida; west to Illinois, Kansas, and Texas. 



