976 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



ii. Ternatce. Leaves 3 in a Sheath. 



A. Natives of North America. 



i. 18, P. Tie HA. L. The Frankincense, or Loblolly^ Pine. 



Identification. Lin Sp. PI., 1419. ; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. p. 1.55. ; Pursh Sept., 2. p. 644. 

 Synonymes. P. foliis ternis (iron. F&g. 152. ; P. virginiana tenuiffilia tripilis P/uk. Mm. 2;)7. ; 



White Fine, at Petersburg and Richmond, in Virginia ; Oldfield Pine, Amer. ; Pin de TEncens' 



Fr. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., I. t. 1-5. ; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., t. 143. ; the plate of this tree in 



Arb. Brit., 1st edit., vol. viii. ; our fig. 1819. to our usual si-ale ; and figs. 1816. to 1818. of the 



natural size, from the Horticultural Society, Dropmore, and Syon specimens. 



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S'pec. Char, S^-c. Leaves in threes, elongated 

 than the leaves ; oblonir, 

 pyramidal, somewhat trun- 

 cate at the apex ; scales 

 with sharp prickles, turned 

 inwards. Crest of the 

 anthers rounded. Buds, 



on young trees 



(see fig. 1816.), 



i inch long, and 



\ inch broad ; 



pointed, with 



straight sides ; 



brownish red, 



and more co- 

 vered with resin 



than any other 

 1816. species, except 



Pin. Banks;tt?iff. 

 Buds on the full-grown 

 tree at Syon as in fig. 

 1818. Leaves (see fig. 

 1817.) from 5^ in. to 3f in. 

 long, rigid, bluntly pointed, 

 channeled in tiie middle, 

 with sheaths from |^in. to 



I in. long : brown, and 

 faintly ringed. Cones .ji in. 

 to 4i in. long, and fn)m 



I I in. to 2 in. broad ; scales 



Cones often in pairs, shorter 



liin. 



long. Seed small ; 

 with the wing, l^^in. long. 

 A large tree. Florida to 

 Virginia, in barren sandy 

 situations. Height 70 ft. 

 to 80 ft. Introduced in 

 1713. In the climate of 

 London, the tree flowers 

 in May, but in Carolina it 

 flowers in April ; and the 

 cones ripen in the August 

 of the second year. 



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Variety. 

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1817. P. TaeMa. 



T. 2 aIopcc7iroidea Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., v. p. 317. The Fox- 

 tail Frankincense Pine. Said to have the leaves spreading, and 

 more squarrose than the species. Pursh is of opinion that this 

 variety is nothing more than the P. serotina of Michaux ; but Lam- 

 bert thinks it a variety of P. rlgida. 



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