P I N U S 
T^DA. 
Anglo-American Names.—Loblolly Pine; Frankincense Pine; Old Field Pine ; and White Pine, about 
Richmond and Petersburg, in Virginia. 
Identification. —PINUS VIRGINIANA TENUIFOLIA, Plukenett, Almag. Bot. Phyt., p. 297 (1696). 
PINUS FOLIIS LONGISSIMIS, Colden, Nov. Ebor. in Act. Soc. Upfal. , p. 1743- n. 230. 
PINUS FOLIIS TERNIS, Gronovius, Flor. Virgin., ed. 2, p. 152 (1762). 
PINUS TPEDA, Linnaeus, Spec., p. 1419 (1762); Du Roi, Harbk. Baumz., ii. p. 63 (1771); Wangenheim, Beytr., p. 41 
(1787); Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. 1, i. p. 23 (1803); Desfontaines, Hijl. Arb., ii. p. 612 (1809); Michaux fils , Arbres 
For. de /’ Amer., i. p. 97 (1810); Aiton, Hort. Kew, iii. p. 368 (1810); Willdenow, Baumz., p. 269 (1811); Loifeleur, Nouv. 
Duham., v. p. 245 (1819); Lawfon, Agric. Manual, p. 351 (1836); Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. 2, i. p. 30 (1837); Loudon, 
Arbor. Brit., iv. p. 2237 (1838); Forbes, Pinet. Woburn., p. 43 (1839); Antoine, Conif., p. 25 (1840); Link, in Lmncca, 
xv. p. 503 (1841); Loudon, Encycl. of Trees , p. 976 (1842); Spach, Hifi. Nat. VIg. Phaner., xi. p. 391 (1842); End- 
licher, Syn. Conif., p. 164 (1847); Lindley and Gordon, in Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 217 (1850); Knight, Syn. Conif., p. 
30 (1850); Lawfon, Abietinece, p. 34 (1851); Gordon, Pinetum, p. 210 (1858); and Supplement, p. 67 (1862); Orsted, 
Frilands- Trcevcexten i Damn., part 1. p. 77 (1864). 
Engravings. — Cones, Leaves, &c. —Lambert, Genus Pinus , ed. 2 (loc. cit), t. 18; Loudon, Arbor. Brit. {loc. czt.), figs. 2188-2122 ; Loudon, Encycl. 
of Trees {loc. cit.), figs. 1816-1819; Loifeleur, Nouv. Duham. {loc. cit), t. 75, fig. 2; Forbes, Pmet. Woburn, {loc. cit), t. 14; 
Antoine, Conif. {loc. cit), t. 7, fig. 1 ; Michaux fils, Arbres For. de L'Amer. {loc. at), t. 9. 
Trees.' —Loudon, Arbor. Brit., {loc. cit), iv. fig. 2122 and viii. t. 83. 
Specific Character .—Pinus foliis ternis elongatis tenuibus, ftrobilis patentibus ovato-oblongis obtufis, 
fquamarum apophyfi compreffo-pyramidata redta, umbone projiciente uncinato, feminibus parvis ala longa. 
Habitat in Florida et Virginia. 
A tree of about 80 feet in height, with a fpreading top. Bark yellowifh or afh-grey, at firfl frnooth ; 
when older, thick and deeply fplit. Buds {hort, fomewhat cylin¬ 
drical and conical at the apex (in young 
plants half an inch long, and quarter of 
an inch broad, [fig. 1]), brownifh red, 
very refmous. Leaves of a light green, 
{lender, from four to five or five and a 
half inches in length, with the margins 
{lightly ferrulated, trigonal, rather rigid, with eight or nine rows of fine ftomata 
on the back, and from three to five rows on each other 
fide [figs. 2 and 3]; ufually three in a fheath, fometimes 
four. Sheaths of the leaves brown, rather fine, and long, 
nearly an inch in length. Male flowers, about an inch 
long, bent, and intermingled [fig. 4]. Anthers [figs. 5 
and 6] with the creft moderately large, and the margin 
only very {lightly laciniated. The cones are elongated and fub-cylindrico-pyramidal 
when clofed: when open, more or lefs rhomboidal, {lightly bent towards the tip, 
from three and a half to four and a half inches long, and from one and three-quarters to two inches 
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