336 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
Trunk 50-100 feet high, with a thick, coarse, deeply-furrowed bark. Leaves 6-10 
inches long, light green. We. 5 inches long. — 
Virginia and southward 
Obs. A much more abundant and less valuable tree than the next ; 
uch less resin. rdi 
is dispersed so easily and so universally over the country, that all lands 
we are thrown out of cultivation are immediately covered with this 
Se P. palus’tris, L. Leaves fasciculate in threes, very long ; scales of 
ranches pinnatifid, portions of them persistent ; strobiles alotight- 
éd, conoid,—the scales armed with small recurved spin 
arsH Piyus. Yellow Pine (of the South). Tense Pine. 
Stem 80-100 feet high, and 2-3 or 4 vowed in diameter, with a smoothish bark—the 
branches rough with the persistent artes of the stipules (stipules ramentaceous). 
wes 9-15 inches long. Str 6-9 fates | ong. 
seat soils : Virginia to Florida. FI. April. Fr. August-September. 
" Obs. This is a most important and valuable species. It yields the 
firmest and most durable lumber, for house and ars building, of any of 
the genus. The superior “ heart-pine ” boards, for flooring, &c., and the 
uiort, “ most of the aaneg of pa py obtained.” ‘Tar is pro- 
cured by charring the w an ts of this and other ss aerron te b 
a smothered fire, which melts the a atin ne and mixes it wi 
— he in fives: bark smooth: scales of the cones neither thickened nor 
prickly-pointed at the end. 
7. P. Stro’ bus, L. Leas Pages een at base, long and slender ; 
strobiles oblong, sub-cylind noddin. 
White Pine. Weymouth ee Nev ew eaiee’ Pine. 
Stem - or 80-120 feet or more in height, and 2—4 or 5 feet in diameter, straight and 
tee a smooth bark—especially while young ; branches Meese: slender, 1 eae! few 
d thos ch the summit = the trees are pga Leaves ches long, 
linear, bi — or glaucous-green. Strobile 3-5 inches long, Seaieha ainehe | scales 
eate 
Rich s sole, " bottom lands, along streams, &c.: Canada to Virginia. FI.May. Fr. Aug.- 
September. 
7 is also nnt 
Obs. 
of lumber, in the form of roan n at eating, of late years— 
since the ress has become somewhat scarce and dear—it is exten- 
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