ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 



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occasionally to 60 feet tall, with stout spreading branches forming a broad, 

 open, often flat-topped head; bark dark brown, thick, broken into irregular 

 plates covered with thin scales, on the upper part of trunk and on the branches 

 separating into thin loose scales; branchlets light orange; winter-buds oblong, 

 obtuse, dark chestnut-brown: leaves stout, twisted, sharply pointed, dark 

 green, lM~23^ inches long: cones conic-ovoid, oblique at the base, light 

 brown, 2^-3 J^ inches long; apophysis pyramidal and conspicuously keeled, 

 the conical elongated umbo ending in a stout curved spine; seed light brown, 

 y^ inch long. From New Jersey and eastern Tennessee to northern Georgia. — 



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91. Pinus virginiana. 



