‘‘Ipsa inter medias flagrantem fervida pinum 
sustinet ac natae Turnique canit hymenaeos” 
Virgilius. 
§ Leaves 6cm. or longer, very slender. 
2. P. echinata Miller. 
Pinus virginiana praelongis folits tenutoribus 
cono echinato pracit. . Pluk. \. c, 207. 
P. echinata Miller, \. c. Sargent, Silva. 11: 143. 
toa Bo7 saan, 2G. /lone, Urees 14, i! TA rs. 
Wiis de. Leech. . Nlachx. Pl. 2: 204. 
YELLOw PINE. 
Tree reaching a maximum height of 30 m.; leaves 1 
mm. thick, grooved, dark-green in color, resembling 
those of P. strobus; cones 4 cm. or longer, 3 cm. or less 
in diam. when open; the scales armed with minute 
prickles. 
In sandy soil. 
** Scales of the cones tipped with stout prickles. 
3. P. pungens Lambert. eel O: 
Pinus pungens Lambert; Michx. f£. Hist. Arbr. 
EAMG ie vOne rE Ge OO OLIV ar tic 1 25.1 tenors 
Man. 33. Hough, Trees 19. ff. 18, 19. 
TABLE-MOUNTAIN PINE. PRICKLY PINE. 
A middle-sized tree with spreading branches; bark 
rough and scaly; leaves 1.5 or thicker, grooved. bluish- 
green in color; concs ovoid, 7 cm. or longer, 6 cm. in 
diameter when open; scales armed with rigid, triangul- 
ar, curved, 5mm. long prickles. 
