The Trees of Wyoming. 



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(2) LIMBER PINE. 



(Pimts flexilis James). 



"In winter, when the dismal rain 



Came down in slanting lines 

 And Wind, that grand old harper, smote 

 His thunder-harp of pines." Alex. Smith. 



Description. Leaves five in a bundle, \y 2 to 2^ inches long; cones 

 light colored, long egg shaped, 3 to 4 inches, their scales with broad tips, not 

 much thickened, widely spreading when mature. 



Like the preceding, this is widely distributed and oc- 

 curs in the hills and mountains in the most exposed situ- 

 ations. It forms a 

 scattering growth or 

 more rarely a contin- 

 uous forest; is usually 

 most abundant on east 

 slopes, and is found 

 at somewhat higher 

 elevations than the 

 preceding. It is rare- 

 ly a well formed tree, 

 except when it forms a 

 dense forest, on ac- 

 count of the stress of 

 weather that it has to 

 endure in the exposed 

 situations which it oc- 

 cupies. Its remarka- 

 bly limber twigs, 

 which no weight of 

 winter snow can ever 

 the fiercest tempest, 

 five-leaved 



VII. Limber Pine. 



snap, enable 



Cones, twig and leaf-bundle. 



it to withstand 



So far as our species are concerned, the 

 bundles and unarmed cones will at once distinguish 



