. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Short-leaved Pine 33 The trunk is tall and somewhat tapering, the branches rather slender, slightly pendulous, forming a rounded or conic top. The bark is often cm. thick, coarsely fissured into large irregular plates with close reddish scales. The twigs are stout, very brittle, pale green to violet with a bluish bloom, becoming dark purplish red, finally darker and scaly. The branch-buds are ovoid, gradually nar- row
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Short-leaved Pine 33 The trunk is tall and somewhat tapering, the branches rather slender, slightly pendulous, forming a rounded or conic top. The bark is often cm. thick, coarsely fissured into large irregular plates with close reddish scales. The twigs are stout, very brittle, pale green to violet with a bluish bloom, becoming dark purplish red, finally darker and scaly. The branch-buds are ovoid, gradually nar- rowed to a blunt tip, the scales lanceolate, pointed, and dark brown. The leaves are in sheathed clusters of 2, and often in 3's, dark bluish green, soft and flexible, 7 to 13 cm. long, about mm. thick, minutely and closely toothed, sharp-pointed, with many rows of stomata on all faces, containing 2 to 6 resin-ducts and i fibro- vascular bundle; they are in crowded clusters and persist for two or three or even five years. The pale grayish green, lanceolate, and long-pointed primary leaves are abundantly pro- duced on sprouts from stumps or injured portions of the tree. The flowers appear in April or May, the staminate in short crowded clusters, oblong- cyUndric, about 18 mm. long, with light purplish anthers. The pistillate flowers are in pairs or clusters of 3 or 4, lateral, but often near the ends of the branches, erect and stoutly stalked, oblong or globose, about 8 mm. long, their scales ovate, sharp-tipped, pink or pale red. The cones, ripen- ing in the autumn of the second season, are short- stalked and pendulous, usually in clusters, conic when closed, ovoid when open, 5 to cm. long, dull brown, opening soon after reaching maturity and persisting for several years. The scales are rather thin and concave, rounded at the apex, transversely ridged, sUghtly thickened and provided with a small oblong knob, armed with a short, straight or sUghtly recurved early deciduous
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