GYMNOSPERMS 



PINE FAMILY 

 (CONIFERAE) 



1. Pinus echinata Mill. Rosemary Pine, Short-leaf 



Pine, Yellow Pine. 



Needles short, 3-5 inches long, not twisted; cones 

 very small, 2 inches long or less. The largest North 

 Carolina pine and an important timber tree; abun- 

 dant in the middle district where it covers old fields, 

 and is often known as Old Field Pine ; much rarer in 

 the coastal plain where it descends to the neighbor- 

 hood of streams or damp flats ; in the mountains it is 

 found only at low elevations. Old trees grown in 

 thick woods are free of limbs and knots to near the 

 top, and such trees are commonly called Forest Pines. 

 "Lone Pine," the very large tree on Lone Pine Hill, 

 destroyed by lightning about 1908, was probably the 

 largest pine tree in Orange County; from the rings 

 it was about 203 years old. Dates of flowering: 

 April 15, 1903; April 22, 1909; April 4, 1910. 



2. Pinus Taeda L. Loblolly Pine, Old Field Pine, 



North Carolina Pine. 



A large tree with needles about six inches long, 

 and cones 3-5 inches long. Abundant in the coastal 

 plain and eastern part of the middle region, where it 

 covers old fields and is replacing the Long Leaf Pine 

 in good land, then decreasing rapidly and disappear- 



