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its excessively large, spiny cones, which are three to four inches 

 long and grow in clusters on the central shoot of young trees and 

 the terminal branches of old ones. The cones are often so 

 firmly attached to the wood that they remain on the trees for 

 many years, and are sometimes covered over by the bark and 

 wood ; immense numbers of cones occur on old trees. This 

 pine is common in old highland fields, and on the mountains 

 and foothills of Hampshire, Grant, Mineral and Pendleton 

 counties, but so far as I have observed, it does not occur west 

 of the mountains. It grows to a height of forty feet and a 

 diameter of eighteen to twenty inches, but like the scrub pine 

 is of little value except for fuel and mine props. 



The Loblolly Pine} This resembles the pitch pine, except 

 that it has longer leaves and larger cones. While this is a 

 common and valuable tree along the coast from Delaware 

 southward, in West Virginia it is of rare occurance. According 

 to Millspaugh (Bulletin 24 of the W. Va. Expt. Station) it oc- 

 curs along the table lands in Mineral, Hampshire and Hardy 

 counties and also in Wood county ; but so far I have failed to 

 recognize it in any section of the State. The pine referred to 

 in Wood county, which I have seen, is not this species, but 

 probably a variety of the pitch pine. 



The Red Pine or Canadian Pine. 2 This, according to Brit- 

 ton, (Illustrated Flora, Eastern U. S. and Canada, p. 51,) is a 

 "tall forest tree, reaching a maximum height of about 150 feet, 

 and a diameter of five feet, the bark redish, rather smooth, 

 flaky when old ; leaves two in each sheath, 4 to 6 inches long, 

 cones 1-J to 2 inches long, and usually less than one inch thick." 



Although 1 have not seen living examples of this tree, I have 

 evidence that some fine examples grow on the borders of the 

 spruce and larch or "pine 1 ' swamps near Cranesville, Preston 

 county, at an elevation of about 2,600 feet above tide. I saw 

 the stumps, bark and wood, which agrees with the description, 

 and since the Canadian conditions prevailing there are espec- 

 ially favorable for the occurance of this northern tree, it seems 

 very probable that the large trees referred to belonged to this 



1 PinuB taeda, L. 2 Pinus resinosa, Ait. 



