200 FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



OBISPO PINE, bishop's PINE. 



California, Meudociuo couuty sonth tUrough the Coast rauges to San Luis Obispo county. 



A tree 24 to 36 meters in height, with a trunk 0.30 to 0.90 meter in diameter, or more often not exceeding ID 

 meters in lieight; 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 in Mendocino county; rare and local. 



Wood light, very strong and hard, rather coarse-grained, compact ; bands 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, 0.26. 



/ 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, Snppl. iv, 417. London, Arboretnm, Iv, 2195, f. 2073-2076. Antoine, Conif. 16, t. 5, f. 1. Lindley in Penn. Cycl. xvii, 

 171. Spach, HUt. Veg. xi, 386. Torrey, Fl. N. York, ii, 229. Endlicher, Syn. Conif. 167. Knight, Syn. Conif. 26. Lindley 4. 

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

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

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

 Nadelholz. 23. Gray, Manual N. States, 5 ed. 470. Hoopes, Evergreens, 88. Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. xvi', 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. Eidgway in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 88. 



P. echinata, Miller, Diet. 7 ed.No. 12. Marshall, Arbustum, 180 TWangenheim,Aiuer. 74. 



P. Virginiana, var. echinata, Du Eoi, Harbk. ii, 38. 



P. TcBda, var. variabilis, Alton, Hort. Kew. Iii, 368. 



P. variabilis, Lambert, Finns, 1 ed. i, 22, 1. 15 ; 2 ed. i, 25, 1. 16 ; 3 ed. i, 29, 1. 14. Willdenow, Spec, iv, 498. Persoon, Syn. ii, 

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

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

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

 Pinetnm Woburn. 35, t. 11. Eaton & Wright, Bot. 358. Antoine, Conif. 15, t. 5, f. 2. Link in Linneea, xv, 502. 

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



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



YELLOW PINE, SHOET-LBAVED PINE. SPEUCE PINE. BULL PINE. 



Stateu 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 onlj^ 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 j 

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

 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 

 Misoissippi river, and among yellow i)ine8 only inferior in value to that of P. palustris. 



378. Pinus glabra, Walter, 



t.v,342. 1 



sens, 82. Ai 



fP. mitis, \&T. paupera. Wood, CI. Book, 660. 



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

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



