. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. PINE FAMILY rarely of four, slender, dark blue green, serrulate, acute, with callous tips, soft, three to five inches long ; hbro-vascular bundles two. Sheaths thin, silvery white at first, later become dark grayish brown. Persist from two to five years. Flo'd'crs.—Staminate flowers in short crowded clusters, near the tip of the growing shoots, oblong-cylindrical, three-cjuarters of an inch long; anthers pale purple with orbicular, slightly denticulate crests ; involucral bracts eight t
. Our native trees and how to identify them; a popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. Trees. PINE FAMILY rarely of four, slender, dark blue green, serrulate, acute, with callous tips, soft, three to five inches long ; hbro-vascular bundles two. Sheaths thin, silvery white at first, later become dark grayish brown. Persist from two to five years. Flo'd'crs.—Staminate flowers in short crowded clusters, near the tip of the growing shoots, oblong-cylindrical, three-cjuarters of an inch long; anthers pale purple with orbicular, slightly denticulate crests ; involucral bracts eight to ten. Pistillate flowers in clusters of two, three or four, subterminal, oblong or subglobose, one-third of an inch long; scales ovate, rose pink, with slender tips ; bracts nearly orbicular. Cones.—Lateral, very abundant, ovate or oblong-conical, one and a half to two and a half inches long, persist several years. Scales nearly flat, obtuse, thickened at apex, marked with a prominent transverse ridge, armed with small, slender, nearly straight, de- ciduous prickles. Seeds triangular, brown, mottled with black ; wings broadest at the middle, thin, pale brown, one-half an inch long. GRAY PINE. JACK PINE. SCRUB PINE Plmis divarii-a/n. Frequently seventy feet high with straight branchless trunk, long spreading branches forming an open symmetrical head ; often much shorter and sometimes shrubby. Fruits when very young. A north- ern tree, ranging from Nova Scotia southward to Maine, New Hamp- shire, and Vermont, westward to northern Indiana and Illinois, and in the northwest to the valley of the Mackenzie River, where it is the only pine tree. In sandy soil, sometiines forming exclusive forests. Bark. — Dark brown with reddish tinge, with shallow rounded ridges separating into small ap- pressed scales. Branchlets slender, tough, flex- ible, pale yellow green, becoming dark reddish purple and later dark purplish brown. Wood.—Pale brown, rarely yellow, sapwood nearly white; l
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