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broad, with little or no foot-stalk. Scales one inch and a quarter 

 long, and three-quarters of an inch wide, lengthened into a low 

 pyramid, terminated with a sharp prickle turned inwards. 

 Seeds small, with ample wings, nearly an inch in length. 



A lofty tree, growing 80 feet high, with a clear stem 50 feet, 

 and fi;om two to three feet in diameter, with a wide-spreading 

 head. 



It is found abundantly in barren, sandy situations, from. 

 Florida to Virginia, in North Carolina, in large forests, some- 

 times 200 mUes in extent, and in the vicinity of Charleston in 

 South Carolina. 



The word "tseda," properly speaking, signifies torches in 

 general, for which the timber of this species is well suited 

 and much used in the Southern States of the Union, where it 

 is called the " Frankincense Pine" and " Oldfield Pine," by the 

 inhabitants ; for when any piece of clear land is neglected for 

 anj'^ length of time, it is speedily covered with this kind. 

 Hence the name of " Oldfield Pine." 



No. 54. PiNUS Teocote, Scfdede, the Candle-wood Pine. 



Syn. Pinus Besseriana,, Roezl. 



„ „ microcarpa, Roezl. 



„ „ Mulleriana, Roezl. 



,, „ Vilmoriniana, Roezl. 



„ „ Galocote, Roezl. 



„ .„ Hugelii, Roezl. 



„ „ Kegelii, Roezl. 



„ „■ interposita, Roezl. 



„ „ tumida, Roezl. 



Leaves in threes, from three to five inches long, compressed, 

 erect, rigid, sharp-pointed, twisted at the base, light green, 

 channelled on the inner side, and convex below ; sheaths one 

 inch long, persistent, jagged at the margin, but much shorter 

 on the old leaves. , Branches rather stiff, and very leafy ; buds 



