PINUS ELLIOTTIL 375 
P. rigida, 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 sparing- 
ly as far as 15 to 20 miles 
inland, but never very far 
from the influence of salt- 
water, Dr. Mellichamp; to 
Georgia, Elliott ; and Florida, 
Canby, Curtiss ; forming for- 
ests on the St. John’s River, 
where it is often called 
Slush-pine, and is not cut for 
timber, Sargent ; “the most 
common pine in South Flor- 
ida, 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 East- 
ern, Middle, and Northern 
Florida,” Dr. A. P. Garber; 
extending westward to Ala- 
bama, “a common tree along 
the bay of Mobile,” Mohr, 
Sargent. Prof. Sargent ob- 
serves that while the long- 
leaf pine rapidly disappears 
under the axe, Elliott's pine 
becomes more and more com- 
mon, the young second- 
growth forests in Florida 
almost entirely consisting of 
this species and o . 
This is the earliest flow- 
ering 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 abun- 
dant pollen, which, wafted Piers I. 
by the winds, is apt to cover 
roads and streets, and especially sheets and pools of water, far and wide, with its sulphur-look- 
ing powder. P. australis, also with rose-purple flowers, comes several weeks later, and then the 
others, — P. Teeda, next P. glabra and mitis, and lastly P. rigida, var. serotina with greenish-yellow 
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