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also found in damp clayey pine lands and with P. rigitda, 
var. serotina, in pine-barren ponds, rarely exclusively covering 
small tracts, and only as a second growth in old fields. From 
South Carolina, on the sea islands near Charleston, to Georgia 
along the coast, and sparingly as far as 15 to 20 miles inland, 
but never very far from the influence of salt water, Dr. Mellz- 
champ ; to Georgia, Elliott ; and Florida, Canby, Curtiss ; form- 
ing forests on the St. John’s river, where it is often called Slash- 
pine, and is not cut for timber, Sargent; “ the most common 
pine in South Florida, the ‘short-straw pine’ of the wood-cutters, 
taller, more slender, and with harder wood than the ‘ long-straw. 
pine,’ P. australis, which is the principal forest tree of Eastern, 
Middle and Northern Florida,” Dr. A. P. Garber; extending 
westward to Alabama, ‘‘a common tree along the bay of Mobile,” 
Mohr, Sargent. Prof. Sargent observes that while the long-leaf 
pine rapidly disappears under the axe, Elliott’s pine becomes 
more and more common, the young second growth forests in Flo- 
rida almost entirely consisting of this species and of Tada. 
This is the earliest flowering pine of those regions, from 2 to 4 
weeks in advance of any other pine, showing its rose-purple male 
flower-buds already in December, and in January or February, 
according to latitude and season, shedding its abundant pollen, 
which, wafted by the winds, is apt to cover roads and streets, 
and especially sheets and pools of water, far and wide, with its 
sulphur-looking powder. P. austra/is, also with rose-purple flow- 
ers, comes several weeks later, and then the others, P. Teda, 
next P. glabra and mitis, and lastly P. rigida var. serolina with 
greenish-yellow flowers. Our species bears abundantly: every 
year (at least in South Carolina), different from P. australis, 
which, like many other pines, is fruitful only every other season. 
The cones also mature and drop off earlier than those of the 
associated pines, and shed an abundance of seeds, which readily 
germinate about November, and develope their young stems in 
spring. 
-This tree Prof. Sargent considers by far the handsomest of all 
the southern pines, readily distinguished from those, with which 
it is associated, by its heavier, denser heads, darker foliage, and 
larger and heavier branches. 
The red-brown bark is very characteristic of this species; it is 
