Handbook of Teees of the Xoetheen States and Canada. 



The Loblolh' Pine sometimes attains tlie 

 height of 125 ft. with straight trunlc 2 ft. in 

 diameter and, when growing in tlie open, with 

 spreading branches which form a rounded 

 pj'ramidal head. Like several others of the 

 southern trees it e.\tends up into tlie territory 

 covered by this handbook only in the coast 

 region, where its somber tops of dark green 

 are familiar objects along the borders of 

 swamps and lowlands, in company with the 

 Short-leaf Pine, Sweet and Sour Gums, 

 Spanish, Pin, Laurel and other Oaks, Moker- 

 nut Hickory, etc. 



The wood is rather brittle, weak, coarse- 

 grained and not durable, of a yellowish brown 

 color and abundant lighter sap-wood. It is 

 largely manufactured into lumber for interidr' 

 finishing, general construction purposes and 

 for the spars of vessels. The weight of a cubic 

 foot when dry is 33.90 Ibs.i 



Leaves in clusters of ."., with close persistent 

 sheaths, rather slender and stiff, darl? green. 6-9 

 in. long, with large stomata on each face and two 

 fibro-vascular bundles. Flowers: staminate .yel- 

 low, crowded ; pistillate solitary or few together, 

 lateral (below the apex of growing shoot) yellow, 

 short-stalked. Cones ?>-ri in. long, lateral spread- 

 ing, subsessile. reddish brown : scales thickened 

 at apex with prominent transverse ridges and 

 spreading prickle. Ttie cones often remain on the 

 branches for a year after liberating the seeds. 

 These are mottled, about '4 in. long and provided 

 with a large wing broadest above the middle. 



1. A. W., XI, 274. 



