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WHITE PINE. 
the Long-leaved Pine : as it contains more alburnum, from which the tur- 
pentine distils, perhaps by making deeper incisions it would yield a greater 
product. 
The figure of this species in Sir A. B. Lambert’s work is correct; hut 
he mistakes in describing it as of little stature : arbor Tiumilis, etc. ; it is, 
on the contrary, next to the White Pine, the tallest tree of its genus in the 
United States. 
PLATE CXLIV. 
A branch with a cone of the natural size. Fig. 1 , A leaf. Fig. 2, A seed. 
WHITE PINE., 
Pinus STROBUS. P. arbor excelsa ; cortice Icevi, cinereo estate ; foliis qüinis, graci- 
libus, vaginis nullis ; amentis masculis parvis, rufis ; strobilis Icevigatis pen- 
dulis longo-cylindraceis. 
This species, one of the most interesting of the American Pines, is known 
in Canada and the United States by the name of White Pine, from the 
perfect whiteness of its wood when freshly exposed, and in New Hamp- 
shire and Maine, by the secondary denominations of Pumpkin Pine , 
Apple Pine , and Sapling Pine , which are derived from certain accidental 
peculiarities. 
The leaves of the White Pine are five-fold, 4 inches long, numerous, 
slender, and of a bluish green : to the lightness and delicacy of the foliage 
is owing the elegant appearance of the young trees. The male aments 
are 4 or 5 lines long, united to the number of 5 or 6, and arranged like 
those of the Loblolly and Long-leaved Pines : they turn reddish before 
they are cast. The cones are 4 or 5 inches long, 10 lines in diameter in 
the middle, pedunculated, pendulous, somewhat arched, and composed of 
thin, smooth scales, rounded at the base. They open about the first of 
