976 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM, 
§ ii. Terndte. — Leaves 3 in a Sheath. 
A. Natives of North America. 
£ 18. P. Tex pa L. The Frankincense, or Loblolly, Pine. 
Identification. Lin. Sp. Pl., 1419.; | Michx. N. Amer. Syl., 3. p. 155. ; Pursh Sept., 2. p. 644. 
Synonymes. P. foliis térnis Gron. Virg. 152.; P. virginiana tenuifolia tripilis Pluk. Alm. 297. ; 
white Pine, at Petersburg and Richmond, in Virginia ; Oldfield Pine, Amer. Pin de l’Encens, 
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Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2.,1. t. 15.; Michx. N. Amer. Syl., t. 143.; the plate of this tree in 
Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. viii.; our jig. 1819. to our usual scale; and figs. 1816. to 1818. of the 
natural size, from the Horticultural Society, Dropmore, and Syon specimens. 
Spec. Char, §c. Leaves in threes, elongated. Cones often in pairs, shorter 
than the leaves; oblong, 
pyramidal, somewhat trun- 
cate at the apex; scales 
with sharp prickles, turned 
inwards. Crest of the 
anthers rounded. Buds, 
‘ on young trees 
, (see fig. 1816.), 
3 inch long, and 
4 inch broad ; 
pointed, with 
straight _ sides ; 
brownish red, 
and more co- 
vered with resin 
than any other 
species, except 
Pin, Banksidna, 
Buds on the full-grown 
tree at Syon as in jig. 
1818. Leaves (see fig. 
1817.) from 53 in. to 52in. 
long, rigid, bluntly pointed, 
channeled in the middle, 
with sheaths from 7 in. to 
lin. long; brown, and 
faintly ringed. Cones 33in. 
to 42 in. long, and from 
13in. to 2in. broad ; scales 
ILin. long. Seed small ; 
with the wing, 1,3, in. long. 
A large tree. Florida to 
Virginia, in barren sandy 
situations. Height 70 ft. 
to 80 ft. Introduced in 
1713. In the climate of 
London, the tree flowers 
in May, but in Carolina it 
flowers in April; and the 
cones ripen in the August 
of the second year. 
1817. P. Txa‘da. 
Pariety. 
2 P. T. 2 alopecurdidea Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2., v. p. 317. The Fox- 
tail Frankincense Pine. — Said to have the leaves spreading, and 
more squarrose than the species. Pursh is of opinion that this 
variety is nothing more than the P. serétina of Michaux ; but Lam- 
bert thinks it a variety of P. rigida. 
