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LOBLOLLY PINR. 
for issuing from the axil of a single leaf, in the same manner as in the 
young plant. The tree is found from the Penobscot river in Maine to the 
mountains of Carolina.] 
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LOBLOLLY PINE. 
Pinus tæda. P. arbor maxima, svpernè patula ; foliis ternis, prœlongis ; amen- 
lis masculis diver gentibus ; strobilis 4 uncialibus ; tessulis mucrone sursum 
rigide uncinato ; frucliferis sub-rhomboideis. 
Throughout the lower part of the Southern States this species is called 
Loblolly Pine , and sometimes White Pine about Petersburg and Richmond 
in Virginia. I observed it for the first time near Fredericksburg, 230 
miles south of Philadelphia, and I believe it does not exist much further 
north ; it certainly is not found in Pennsylvania, as Sir A. B. Lambert 
erroneously asserts after Vanghenheim. 
In the lower part of Virginia, and in the districts of North Carolina 
situated north-east of the river Cape Fear, over an extent of nearly 200 
miles, it grows wherever the soil is dry and sandy; on spots consisting of 
red clay mingled with gravel, it is supplanted by the Yellow Pine and by 
different species of Oak: the two Pines are regularly alternated according 
to the variations in the soil, and frequently vanish and reappear at intervals 
of 4 or 5 miles. 
In the same parts of Virginia, this species exclusively occupies lands 
that have been exhausted by cultivation, and amid forests of Oak, tracts of 
100 or 200 acres are not unfrequently seen covered with thriving young 
Pines. In the more Southern States it is the most common species after 
the Long-leaved Pine, but it grows only in the branch-swamps; or long 
narrow marshes that intersect the pine-barrens , and near the creeks and 
rivers, where the soil is of middling fertility and susceptible of improve- 
ment : such is the vicinity of Charleston, S. C., which is covered to the 
distance of 5 or 6 miles with Loblolly Pines. 
The leaves are fine, of a light green, 6 inches long, and united to the 
number of 3, and sometimes of 4 on young and vigorous stocks. The 
