Hardy Pine of rapid growth when voung and easily 

 raised from seed; grows on dry and sterile soil. As an 

 ornamental plant it may be used on dry and roi-l<y 

 slopes, where it becomes often very picturesque wheu 



1826. Pinus rigid 



older. It sprouts readily frf 

 destroyed by fire. 



8. La lie 

 29. echinita, Mill. (P m)ti 

 Yellow Pine. Tu c , t.) inn ..i 

 pendulous br.iii 1 in i 1 

 long -ovate, bt 

 green, sometim 

 stalked or ahiio i 



2 m. long, ap. 

 with short str. 

 to a in. long 

 n.!J87 -H.in.l- 

 as far north as 

 30. Virginiii 



JbRSF\ I'lNL 



slender li .n/ui 



Rkle. beedb one-fifth 

 to III. and Tex. S.S. 

 iiad, oval head, hardy 



, Ait.). Scrub Pine. 

 ?times to 100 ft., with 

 ranches in remote and 



Jl. divaricata, Dum. ( ouis (/' 

 Binilsiituu, Lamb.). Tree, to 7(1 

 ft , but usually lower and some- 

 times shrubby, with slender, 

 spreading branches, forming a 

 broad, open head : branchlets 

 yellowish to purplish brown : 

 winter-buds oblong-ovate, light 

 brown, very resinous: Ivs. stiff, 

 1827. twisted, spreading, acute or ob- 



ne of Pitch Pine tusisb, d.irk or bright gre»n, 

 js rigida (X K). ='bo"f 1 '"• long: cones conic-ob- 

 long, usually curved, pale yellow- 

 1 and lustrous, unarmed, lK-2 in. long, remaining 

 ) tree for 12 or l.'i years; apophysis flattened, with 

 isverse line and a small dark obtuse umbo: seed 

 Ye in. long. Hudson bay to N. Y., west to Minu. 



S.S. 11:388. -The most northern of all American Pines 

 and quite hardy, but not of much oruaimiital value. 



22. clailsa, Sarg. {P. tiii'i' \ u < r ,,, Engelm.). 

 S\ndPine. Spruce Pini i ' ■ i m. Tree, to 



branches: branchlets re. I i i , u.ls oblong, 



obtuse, not or littl. I ni.i mil llexibb', 



acute, dark green. iMnt-stalkiMl, 



often oblique at 1 1 .ink reddish 



afti r ripening and ..Urn l„ n^- .n\il.i|i. .1 bv the 



JIM'- hil: wood of the stem. ;ijm.|iIi \ s|., .i. pi-.-sv, .1 j.yra- 

 nihl il, . ..nspicuously keele.l ; nml... witli ;i sIm.i-i, sinut 

 -pui. . ria. and Ala. near th. .•..., .t, S.s. 1 1 .."..s-. c.p. 

 O.lbl.- Little known incultnatiuu 



atiuu and nui hard} north. 

 33. cont6rta, Dougl. (P. Bohinderi, Pari.). ScRfii 

 INE. Tree, to 20, occasionally to 30 ft., with rather 

 out branches fomiinff a round-topped compact or 



,. nil. 1.1 ... I tie, t., SO .ml n. , ,si,.., .Ih 1 ",0 ft., With 



II. I III ' I I .1 I I 1 I 1,1 nrange or 



1 i-ii lironnand lustrous, scales 

 li .1. \ated, pyramidal apex, the 



si. niter incurved spine. Alaska 

 nt .Hid Colo.-Var. BolAnderi, 



iin is 1 Ii.w till, with shorter, 



\ I Murrayaua, 1 lU'elm (P 



s li iiih .11.. th. 



pungens. M.chx. Table Mountain Pine. Po\ 

 Tim liii, to iO, occasiiiuall} to (.(I tt , with 



VS4 -Ilaiih a, Kii ii..iili .i, Mass., but 

 tttal value. 



muric&ta, Don. Prickle-cone Pine. Tree, to ."iO, 

 .lonally to 90 ft., with stout, spreading branches 



branch {X%). 



young trees, in old age 

 . ^v...ipact: branches orange- 

 :, dark brown, resi 



bi-..\vii: winti-i-imils ovate, dark brown, resinous: Ivs. 

 still', iisinilly twisted, acute, dark green, 4-7 in. long: 

 cms ii-iiiilly .Instered, oblong-ovate, oblique at the 



b:.s.' .■liivltiiil l,i-.i\\-n. *'_'}l.'' ill. Inno-r senlps nt' the iinner 



in. long; scales of the upper 

 apex terminated by a dark 

 les of the lower side more 

 ght spines; the cones usn- 

 eral years after maturity: 



