POND PINE; MARSH PINE (Pinus serotina, Michx.). 40 to 

 30 feet. Open-headed, water-loving tree, with stout, gnarled 

 branches, orange when young, becoming dark brown. Trunk 

 with red-brown bark, thin, scaly, with fissures wide apart. 

 Wood heavy, resinous, soft, dark orange, yielding some tur- 

 pentine and lumber in North Carolina. Leaves in bundles of 

 3's (rarely 4's), dark yellow-green, 6 to 8 inches long, falling 

 in the third or fourth year. Flowers staminate in orange- 

 colored spikes; pistillate in paired cones, on short stems. 

 Fruit nearly globular or oblong, 2 inches long, with thin, 

 nearly flat scales armed with slender, incurved prickles, which 

 are shed. Cones hang long after ripe. Dist.: Low land 

 from North Carolina to the St. John's River, Florida, usually 

 growing with the longleaf pine. 



