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Manual of the Southeastern Flora - Small
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FAMILY 1. PINACEAE - PINE FAMILY


Mostly evergreen resin-yielding shrubs or trees, typically conic, with flaky or brittle bark, the buds scaly. Leaves narrow and solitary or needle-like and usually several together, each group with a sheath at the base. Ovulate ament with bracted scales. Ovules inverted. Cone of dry scales. Seeds usually 2 on each scale, often samara-like. - Family of the first economic Importance: its members furnish lumber, resinous products, tanning materials, volatile oils. The species fall into a dozen genera of wide geographic distribution.