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Subkingdom SPERMATOPHYTA. 
Class I. GYMNOSPERMAE. 
Order CONIFERAE. 
Bellonius, (1533). Rivinus (1690-1699). 
Linn. Phil. Bot. 30, (1751); also Haller Fl. Helv. (1752) & (1753) 
Family 8 ABIETIDEAE S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. 2. 223, (1821). 
Pinaceae Lindley Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 313, (1836). 
PINUS Vergil. Ecl. VII, 56, and Georg. I, 141.* Pliny. 
Pinus Tour. Els. Bot. p. 457, (1694). Inst. Rei Herb. p. 585, 
(1700). Pinus Linn., (in part) Syst. Nat. (1735); Gen. Pl. p. 
293, (1737); Hort. Cliff. p. 450, (1737); Gen. P. p. 434, (1754); 
Sp:) Pi. p.- r0s0,” (8753). 
Pinus divaricata (Ait.) Sudw. Bull. Club. Iub. 20: 44, (1893) 
Pinus Banksiana Yamb., Pinus, 1: 7 pl. 3, (1803). Pinus 
sylvestris var divaricata Ait. Hort. Kew, 3: 366, (1789). 
No. 1o101 Mineral Springs (Porter Co.) Nos. 9454, 9455, 
604%, 2791, Notre Dame, Ind. Common in the dunes at Millers, 
Ind. (Lake Co.) Michigan City (Laporte Co.) The plants at 
Notre Dame have been planted along the roadsides are mentioned 
only because they frequently spread by seeds spontaneously but 
are seldom allowed to attain any size unless growing along hedges. 
No plants have been noted by me as spontaneous east of the 
dune region of Lake Michigan. Porter and Lake Co. [Deam]. 
Pinus Strobus Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1oo1, (1753). 
STROBUS. WEYMOUTHIANA Opiz, Lotos 4: 94 (1854). 
Strobus Strobus (Linn.) Small FL. SE. U. S., p. 29 (1903), 
Genus Strobus Pliny? . 
No. 10021. Tamarack Bog, Sagunay, Ind. (Laporte Co.) 
Now common along Lake Michigan in Lake, Porter, Laporte and 
Berrien Counties. Laporte Co. [Deam]; Porter & Berry Lake, 
[Higley & Raddin]. Not abundant in the latter. The largest 
grove of natural White Pine I have seen near Michigan City. 
All the trees are of no great size. The most eastern report of 
the plant as growing outside of cultivaticn, or certainly not planted 
*Pinus of Vergil was Pinus Pinea Linn. (Pinus horiensis Vergil.) 
Tlurvs of Theocritus. Iledxn npepos Theophrestus, and Kevos, 
