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LONG-LEAVED PINE. 
Each scale is armed with a strong, ligneous spine, 2 lines in length, widened 
at the base, and bent toward the summit of the cone. 
This tree divides itself in numerous ramifications. It is appropriated to 
no particular uSe, but in the mountains of North Carolina its turpentine is 
preferred to every other as a dressing for wounds. I cannot discover the 
slightest difference between this resin and that of the Pitch Pine > and it is 
a remai kable fact that all the Pines, though differing widely from each 
other, yield a resin so analogous as often to be ^distinguishable by the 
taste and smell. 
The Table Mountain Pine has no valuable properties to recommend it 
to notice in Europe ; it will serve only to complete botanical collections 
and to diversify pleasure grounds. 
PLATE C XL. 
A branch with a cone of the natural size. 
LONG-LEAVED PINE. 
Pinus australis. P. arbor maxima ; foliis ternis longissimis ; amentis mascu- 
lis longo-cylindraceis, fusco-glaucis, diver gentibus ; strobilis longissime conoi- 
deis, tessularum tuberculo tumido , mucrone minutissimo terminato. 
Pinus palustris. Linn. 
This invaluable tree is known both in the countries which produce it, 
and in those to which it is exported, by different names ; in the first it is 
called Long-leaved Pine, Yellow Pine, Pitch Pine and Broom Pine ; in the 
Northern States, Southern Pine and Red Pine; and in England and the 
West Indies, Georgia Pitch Pine. I have preferred the first denomination, 
because this species has longer leaves than any other eastward of the Mis- 
