182 THE BOOK OF FORESTRY 
LONGLEAF PINE SHORTLEAF PINE 
Pinus palustris Pinus echinata 
LEAVES LEAVES 
In bundles of 8; many clusters | In bundles of 2 and 3, slender, 
at end of branch, 8’’~18” long, | flexible, blue green, 37-5’ 
slender, flexible, dark green. long. 
CoNnrs Cons 
6’’-10” long borne on short stem, | 13/-23’" long, borne on short 
scales thin and flat, armed| stems with thin scales rounded 
with short prickle. at apex and tipped with short 
prickles. 
RANGE RANGE 
Virginia to Texas along the;New York to Texas, thence 
coast plain. north up Mississippi valley to 
Missouri. 
