SPRUCE PINE; CEDAR PINE (Pinus glabra, Walt.). 80 tc leo feet. Tall tree with narrow head of short, irregular branches. Bark thin, reddish, scaly, with broad plates and shallow fissures. Wood pale, soft, weak, close-grained, little used, except for fuel. Leaves e in a sheath, 1 to 3 inches long, dark green, slender, flexible, shed during second and third seasons. Flowers staminate in short, crowded, yellow
clusters; pistillate cones, 2 or 3 on recurved stems. Fruits solitary or few in a cluster, reddish brown, shining, to 2 inches long, stout, with weak prickles, soon shed. Dist.: South Carolina to Louisiana, in lowlands.