. 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. Shore Pine 27 their basal scales attached to the persistent peduncle. Seed obovate, rounded, about 6 mm. long, hght brown and mottled; wing about 15 mm. long, broadest at the apex, obhque and easily detached from the seed. The wood is hard, brittle, coarse-grained and resinous, light brown; its specific gravity is about It is also called Long-leaved pine. Bull pine, Yellow pine, Foothills pine, and Rocky Mountain ye
. 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. Shore Pine 27 their basal scales attached to the persistent peduncle. Seed obovate, rounded, about 6 mm. long, hght brown and mottled; wing about 15 mm. long, broadest at the apex, obhque and easily detached from the seed. The wood is hard, brittle, coarse-grained and resinous, light brown; its specific gravity is about It is also called Long-leaved pine. Bull pine, Yellow pine, Foothills pine, and Rocky Mountain yellow pine, and is perhaps better regarded as an eastern form of the preceding species. 19. SHORE PINE — Pinus contorta Loudon The Shore pine occurs chiefly along the coast from Alaska to Mendocino county, Cahfornia, at the north in Sphagnum bogs, southward on sand dunes and in other barren places. Its maximum height is 24 meters, with a trunk diameter of m.; usually, however, it is scarcely m. tall with a trunk diameter of dm., and is often reduced to a shrub bearing cones when only a few dm. high. The trunk is short, its branches rather stout, forming a compact round-topped head, sometimes grotesquely irregular. The bark is 2 cm. thick, irregularly and deeply fissured in both directions into small, oblong plates, thickly covered with close dark red- dish brown scales of a purplish or sometimes orange tinge; on younger stems it is thinner, smoother, and of various shades of red or brown. The twigs are stout, smooth and yellowish, gradually darkening through red- brown to nearly black, and roughened by the persistent bases of the bud-scales; branch-buds ovoid, sharp-pointed, often 12 mm. long and dark brown. The leaves are in loose-sheathed fascicles of 2, dark green, to 5 cm. long, slender, minutely sharp- toothed and with short thick tips; they are marked by 6 to 10 rows of deep stomata on each face and contain 2 resin-ducts and 2 fibrovascular bundles; they
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