Handbook of Trees of the Xorthebn States and Canada. 



The Loblolly Pine sometimes attains the 

 height of 125 ft. with straight trunk 2 ft. in 

 diameter and. wlien growing in the open, with 

 spreading brantlii-s which form a rounded 

 pyramidal head. Like several others of the 

 soutiiern trees it extends uj) into the territory 

 covered by this handbook only in the coast 

 region, where its sondier tops of dark green 

 are familiar objects along the borders of 

 swamps and lowlands, in company with th- 

 Short-leaf I'ine, 8weet and Sour fJums, 

 Spanish, Pin, I^aurel and other Oaks. Moker- 

 nut Hickory, etc. 



The wood is rather brittle, weak, coarse- 

 grained and not durable, of a j^ellowish brown 

 color and abundant lighter sap-wood. It is 

 largely manufactured into lumber for interior 

 finishing, general construction purposes and 

 for the spars of vessels. The weight of a cubic 

 foot when dry is 33.90 Ibs.i 



Leaves in clusters of 3. with close persistent 

 sheaths, rather slender and stiff, dark green, 6-9 

 in. long, with large stomata on each face and two 

 tibro-vascular bundles. Floircrs: staminate yel- 

 low, crowded ; pistillate solitary or few together, 

 lateral (below the apes of growing shoot) yellow, 

 short-stalked. Cones S-.'t in. long, lateral spread- 

 ing, subsessile, reddish brown : scales thickened 

 at apex with prominent transverse ridges and 

 spreading prickle. The cones often remain on the 

 branches for a year after liberating the seeds. 

 These are mottled, about i/4 in. long and provided 

 with a large wing broadest above the middh'. 



1. A. W., XI, 274. 



