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imbricated with persistent scales, bearing at the apex, one a few naked 

 stamens, each with 3-8 anther-cells under a somewhat shield-shaped apex, 

 the other an ovate ovule. This in fruit becomes a nut-like blackish seed, 

 resting in the bottom of a berry-like red cup. 



12. TORREYA. Leaves, catkins, &c., nearly as in Taxus. Stamens more scale- 



shaped at top, each bearing 4 hanging anther-cells. Naked seed resembling 

 a thin fleshed drupe or when dry a nut, with no cup around it, as large as a 

 nutmeg, which it resembles also in the brain-like interior structure. 



13. SALISBURIA. Leaves wedge-shaped and fan-shaped, deeply 2-cleft and the 



lobes wavy-toothed and somewhat cleft at the broad truncate end, traversed 

 with straight simple or forking nerves or veins, like a Fern. Flowers not 

 often seen. Sterile catkins slender and loose. Seed drupe-like, and with a 

 fleshy short cup around its base. 



PODOCARPUS, one or two species in choice conservatories, and two half 

 hardy in the Middle States as low shrubs, the genus so called because 

 the fleshy seed is raised on a sort of stalk, belongs here. The leaves are 

 sometimes much unlike those of other Coniferous trees, being large, linear, 

 lanceolate, or even ovate, and veinless, except the midrib. 



1. PiNUS, PINE. (The classical Latin name.) Flowers in late spring. 



1. PiTCH-PiNES and their relatives, with leaves only 2 or 3 in the cluster, 

 scat 'ij -sheathed at the base : wood resinous. 



* Cones lateral and persistent, on the branch long after shedding the seed, the scales 

 thickened at the end, often tipped with a cusp or s/nne : leaves rigid. 

 t- Leaves 3 in the cluster. All natives, but the last Californian. 



P. australis, LONG-LEA VKD or SOUTHERN YELLOW PINE. Lofty striking 

 tree, of pine-barrens from N. Car. S. ; with leaves 10' -15' long, very resin- 

 ous wood, and cones 6' 10' long, the scales tipped with a reflexed short spine. 



P. taeda, LOBLOLLY or OLD-FIELD P. Smaller tree, in light soil, from 

 Virginia S , with less resinous wood, dark green leaves 6'- 10' long, and solitary 

 cones 3' 5' long, the scales tipped with a short straight or incurved spine. 



P. rigida, NORTH ERN PITCH P. Sandy or thin rocky soil, abounding 

 along the coast N. and in the upper country S. : a stout tree, with dark green 

 leaves 3' -5' long from short sheaths, clustered ovate-conical cones 2' -3' long, 

 the scales tipped with a recurved spine or prickle. 



P. ser6tina, POND P. Small tree in wet ground from N. Car. S. ; with 

 valueless wood, leaves 4'- 8' long, and mostly opposite round-ovate cones 2' -3' 

 long, their scales tipped with a very small and weak prickle. 



P. ponder6sa (or BENTHAMIANA) ; planted from California, where it is a 

 characteristic tree, with heavy wood, deep green leaves G'-ll' long, and clus- 

 tered cones about 3' long, reflexed on a short stalk. 



*- *- Leaves only 2 in the sheath, or a Jew of them sometimes in threes. 



M- Planted from Europe. 



P. sylvestris, SCOTCH PINE (wrongly called also Scotch Fir), the com- 

 mon Pine ot N. Europe : middle-sized tree, known by the bluish-Avhite hue of 

 its flat leaves (2' -4' long), reddish bark on the trunk, and narrow tapering 

 cones, the scales with tuborclc-like tips. 



P. Austriaca, AUSTRIAN P., a probable variety of P. LARfcio, or COR- 

 SICAN P. of S. Eu. : a fast-growing massive tree, with very rough branches, 

 dark-green slender but rigid leaves 4' -6' long, and conical cones 2'-3' long. 



w- - Wild species of the countri/. 



P. plingens, TABLE-MOUNTAIN or PRICKLY PINE. Along the Alle- 

 ghanies from Penn. to S. Car. : middle-sized tree ; with dark bluish-green 

 leaves only about 2' lon<;- ; but the heavy and clustered cones fully 3' long, 

 ovate, and' the scales armed with a very strong somewhat hooked spine. 



P. mitis, YELLOW PINE of the North, SHORT-LEAVED YELLOW PINE S. : 

 a middle-sized tree in sandy or dry soil, with firm fine-grained wood, slender 

 leaves (not rarely in threes) 3' -5' lonff, and mostly solitary ovate or oblong- 

 onical cones barely 2' long, the scales tipped with a minute weak prickle. 



