35-t XEAV EXGLAXD TREES IX WIXTER. 



SCOTCH PINE 

 Scotch "Fir." 



Pinus sylvestris L. 



HABIT — A tree up to 70 ft. or occasionally 120 ft. in lieig-ht; as 

 cultivated in this ooiintry in the open, often a low branching- tree with 

 more or less pendant limbs and inclined trunk presenting a rather 

 strasrgling- unkempt appearance; frequently of more erect habit, espe- 

 cially in company with other trees. 



BARK — Grayish-brown, scaly, upper part of trunk and branches 

 characteristicalb" smonthish in appearance by tlaking off of the outer 

 bark in thin papery light-reddish layered scales. 



TAVIGS — Of medium thickness, dull g-rayish-yellow. not downy, rough- 

 ened by scales subtending leaf clusters. 



LEAVES — In clusters of 2, persistent, sheaths becoming lacerated, 

 dull bluish-green li^'-'^e inrhes long, stiff, generally twisted, flat or 

 c^'ncave on one side, rounded on the other, pointed. MICROSCOPIC 

 SECTION — showing 2 fibro-vascular bundles, peripheral resin-ducts, 

 strengthening cells around resin-ducts, at one side of the bundles and 

 beneath the epidermis, stomata all around. 



lll'DS — C>blong- conical, brown, often somevi'hat resinous-coated. 



FKUIT — Cones lV2-'2'^2 inches long, short-stalked, grayish or reddish 

 bru wn. conic-oblong, generally appearing ■with the whorls of lateral 

 branches, usuallj' pointing backward. SCALES — in >"oung cones with a 

 shctrt projection \vhich when mature may persist as a short T\''eak incon- 

 spicuous point or is deciduous, apex of scale thickened with a more or 

 less prominent four-sided boss often recurved especially toward base 

 of cone. 



CO^rPARISO^S — The Scotch Pine often improperly called Scotch "Fir" 

 may be distinguished from the other Pines native or cultivated in New 

 England by the bald reddish appearance of the upper part of trunk 

 and branches, the short bluish-green leaves and the backward-pointing 

 cones. 



DISTRiniTIO\ — A European tree cultivated abroad in extensive for- 

 ests for its timber. In this country more or less planted as an orna- 

 mental tree, and sparingly escaped from cultivation. In Connecticut 

 rare or local as an escape; New London, Lyme, Southington, Bridgeport. 



A\"OOD — Light, soft, reddish-brown with thick light yellowish or red- 

 dish sap wood, easily split and durable, corresponding in importance 

 abroad to the White Pine in this country. 



