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14. PINUS PALUSTRIS. 



SWAMP PINE. 



Pin 



us 



PALusTRis, foliis ternis longlssimis, strobllls 



fe.......... OL.UUI110 sub-cylindraceis muricatis, stipulis pinnatifidls 



ramentaceis persistentibus. 



P. palustris. Soland. MSS. Ait. Kew. v. 3. 3(58. 



. Berl. Bmim%, 211. 



^.palustris, foliis ternis, conis oblongo-pyranxidatis: squamis oblongis' obtnsis. Z)« Rol Harhk. ed. 



Pott. V. 1. m. 



p. palustris, foliis ternis longissimis. Mill. Diet. n. U. Wangenh. Beyt. 73 



P. ainencana palustris, trifolia, foliis longissimis. Hort. Angl. 88. mhamd.Arh. v. 2. 120 « 18 



P. palustris. Marsh. Arh. Ainer. 100. 



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. Habitat in Americas Septentrionalls paludosis. 



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DESCRIPTIO. 



Arhor mcdiocris, gracilis. Folia longissima, fer^ pcdalia, undique patentia, formosa, snbtus convexa, 

 ecarinata, supra nerv^o promiimlo a basi ad apicem notata, margine nervoqne scabra. Vagina 

 unciales, corrugatse, lacerte. StipitU eleganter pinnatifidse, persistentes. Amenta mascula cylin- 

 dracea, elongata, purpurascentia; antherarum crista rotundata, convexa, subdenticulata, antlieris 

 angustlor: fmminea nondfim vidi. StroUli spitbamoei, subcylindracei, recti, tuberculoso-muricati, 

 spinis brevibus, incurvis, obsolctis. 



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I AM indebted to Mr. Fairbairn of Chelsea Gardens for the cone, from which that in the plate was 

 drawn, and for the branch of Male Flowers to that indefatigable collector Mr. John Fraser, who in three 

 several voyages to America brought back each time a large collection of plants; and by whose means 

 many new species adorn our gardens. P. palustris grows only in the warm and moderate climates of 

 North America. Wangenhcim found it as far northward as forty degrees latitude in Pensylvania, but 

 there, he remarks, it is generally solitary and the offspring of cultivation. In Virginia and Carolina it 

 grows in greater numbers. Dry, elevated land does not seem to suit it, but low marshy spots suffi- 

 ciently sheltered, says Wangenhcim. Its height is between forty and fifty feet, and diameter of 

 the trunk nearly two; in proportion therefore to other species, this tree is inconsiderable. The hark 

 is grey and, much cracked upon old trees. The zvood is of a reddish white colour, soft, light, and very 

 sparingly impregnated with resin; it soon decays, and burns badly. It is so little esteemed, that as 

 long as any other kind of wood is to be had, not the least use is made of it. When swamps are dried 

 up and prepared for cultivation, all the trees of this kind growing in tlicm are consumed on the spot. 



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