CONIFER2E.
Pinus Banksiana. Banks' Pine ; Scrub Pine. Wiscon sin to New England. This species is found from the northern parts of the United States nearly tu the Arctic ocean, and from Labrador to the Saskatchewan. In Wis consin it becomes a middle-sized tree, and is used for timber when the trees are found of sufficient size.
P. contorta. Twisted Pine. Rocky Mountains. This tree is found in the Rocky mountains from Colorado to Oregon. It differs widely in regard to size in different local ties. Near the Pacific coast it is often low and scruhby, bearing cones at five feet high. In Colorado it is found at an altitude of 7,000 feet, and attains a height of fifty feet.
P. contorta, var. Bolancleri. Bolander's Pine. Cali foroia. This variety in the Sierra Nevada mountains at an altitude of 5,000 to 9,000 feet attains a height of 150 to 200 feet. It is variously called Tamarack, Twisted Pine or Black Pine.
P. inops. Jersey Pine; Scrub Pine. Eastern United States. A sti aggling tree fifteen to forty feet high, with spreading or drooping branches. It abounds in New Jer sey, Maryland, and Virginia, also on the rocky hills bor dering the Ohio in Kentucky, Southern Illinois and Indiana. The wood is of little value.
P. nalis. Yellow Pine. Eastern United States, chiefly eouth, This is a handsome tree, growing from New Eng land to Wisconsin. and sparingly in Missouri, Kentucky, 'Tennessee, and southward to Florida. The timber is very valuable, commanding a higher price even than the white pine.
P. clausa. Florida. A small tree found by Dr. Chap man at Apalachicola, related to Pinta+ inops.
P. glabra. Spruce Pine, South Carolina and south ward. A tree forty to aixty feet high, with smoothieh bark and soft white wood, branching from near the ground. Resembles P. mitis ; grows from South Carolina to Florida P. resinosa. Red Pine. Massachusetta to Wisconsin. A tree fifty to eighty feet high, with reddish bark, growing from Pennsylvania northward through Canada and NOVEt Scotia, also in Wisconsin and Michigan. The wood is
compact, strong and durable, and for some uses is prefer able to the white pine. It is also an excellent ornamental tree.
P. Elliottii. Elliott's Pine. South Carolina and south ward.
P. pungens. Table Mountain Plne. This species grows on the Allegheny mountains from Pennsylvania south ward; nbuudant in some parts of Virginia and North Carolina. A tree of forty or fifty feet height, and of very vigorous and rapid growth.
P. muricala. Bishop's Pine. California. A small tree thirty to forty feet high; grows near the coast north and south of San Francisco, and in other localities in that State.
P. edam Pinon Nut Pine. Rocky Mountain e. A low tree with a spreading habit, growing in Colorado and Utah, and in New Mexico, Arizona, and Southern California. It is universally known by the Mexican name of PM:fn. It bee an edible nut, which is much used as food by the Indians, and the wood is rich in resin, making it excellent fuel.
P. monophylla. Nut Pine. Sierra Nevada mountains. This species is almost limited to the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at altitudes of 2,000 to 6,000 feet. It is a small tree of twenty to forty feet height. The seed:I,' are eagerly collected for food by the Washoe and other Indians. The wood is excellent fuel.
P. Parryana. Nut Pine. Near the Mexican border southwest.
P. ponderosa. Yellow Pine. Rocky Mountains. A very variable pine ; eeveral of its extreme forms have been considered different -pecies. It occurs in Colorado, Utah, and the Black Hills of Dakota. It is remarkable for its heavy wood, which makes excellent lumber. It ia generally called Yellow Pine.
P. ponderosa, var. Benthamiana, Hart. Sappy Pine. California. This variety grows ia the Sierra Nevada mountains. in damp valleys, and near streams. It is gen erally slender and tall, with low limbs, black bark, and sappy. tough wood. Used for building timber, flooring, etc. It hae several names, as Swamp P.ine, Sappy Pine, Black Pine, and Bull Pine.