74 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
I. 1. Sp. 3. Tue Rep or Norway Pine. PP. resinosa. Aiton. 
Figured in Lambert’s Pinus, Plate 13. 
Michaux ; Sylva, III, Plate 134. 
The Red or Norway pine has an erect trunk, taller and more 
slender than that of the pitch pine, which it most nearly resem- 
bles. The bark, which is much less rough, is in rather broad 
scales of a reddish color. The long leaves are in twos, and the 
cones are free from the bristling, rigid, sharp points, which dis- 
tinguish those of the pitch pine. It may also be distinguished 
at a distance by the greater size and length of the terminal 
brushes of leaves. 
This tree is known in New England by the name of the Nor- 
way pine, although it is entirely different from the tree so 
called in Europe, which is a kind of spruce. On this account 
Michaux * proposes to call it the Red pine, which name, he 
says, is given it by the English settlers in Canada. According 
to the elder Michaux, it is found from 48° north, as far south as 
Wilkesbarre, in Pennsylvania. Mr. Douglas found it in north- 
west America, along with Lambert’s pine. It is nowhere 
abundant in Massachusetts, but is found, as is usually the case 
elsewhere, in little detached clumps, in various parts of the 
State. A grove of about twenty trees, in the edge of Newton, 
on a cross road leading from Brookline to the Lower Falls, is 
the only instance in which it occurs in the immediate neigh- 
borhood of Boston. [tis also found, as I am told by Rev. Mr. 
Russell, forming a small wood in the town of Chelmsford. 
In Maine and New Hampshire, where it is often seen ming- 
ling with the forests of white or of pitch pine, it is remarkable 
for its tall trunk sometimes eighty feet in height, free from 
branches, and of nearly a uniform size for forty or fifty feet or 
more, and its smooth reddish bark. 
The branches are in distinct whorls, more regular than those 
of the pitch pine, horizontal or inclining first downv ards and 
curving slightly upwards towards the extremities. The branch- 
lets are stout and covered with a thick false bark, formed of 
* Sylva, IIT, 112. 
