. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . bent toward the top of the cone. The wood is light, soft, not strong, brittle, coarse-grained ; lightbrown in color; the thick sapwood nearly white. It is used forcharcoal and to some extent in construction. 9 130 TIMBER TKEES OF NORTH CAROLINA. Pinus echinata, Miller.* (short-leaf pine, yellow pine, spruce pine, rosemary pine. heart pine.) A tree of commercial importaHce, with a long clear stem, abroad oval ciown, and brownish-red baik broken into rectangularplates, reachinji: a height of 100 and a diameter of 4j feet. It occurs from Ncm^ York to
. Timber trees and forests of North Carolina . bent toward the top of the cone. The wood is light, soft, not strong, brittle, coarse-grained ; lightbrown in color; the thick sapwood nearly white. It is used forcharcoal and to some extent in construction. 9 130 TIMBER TKEES OF NORTH CAROLINA. Pinus echinata, Miller.* (short-leaf pine, yellow pine, spruce pine, rosemary pine. heart pine.) A tree of commercial importaHce, with a long clear stem, abroad oval ciown, and brownish-red baik broken into rectangularplates, reachinji: a height of 100 and a diameter of 4j feet. It occurs from Ncm^ York to Florida and Texas, through Arkan-sas to Indian Territory, Kansas, and Missouri, and in Illinois;reaching its best development in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. In North Carolina, where it grows to a height of 70 to 90 feetand a diameter of 2 to Si feet, it is found throughout, and entersinto the composition of most upland forests. It appears less com-monly in the coastal plain region, being especially rare south ofthe Neuse river. (Fig. 37.). The short-leaf pine produces some seed annually, and bears abun-dantly about once in three years. Seedlings are common on well-drained soil, occupying abandoned iields and often growing in mix-ture with the loblolly pine. The rate of growth in youth is veryrapid. On high exposed situations it is sometimes thrown by thewind. The dark green slender leaves are usually in twos, from a longsheath, and 3 to 5 inches long. The cone, smaller than that ofthe other North Carolina pines, and armed with slender short *Pinus mitis, Michaux. N. C. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. BULLETIN 6. PLATE XVII.
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