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containing a large proportion of sap. In Kentucky a small 

 quantity of tar is obtained from the heart and is consumed in the 

 vicinity, Next to gray pine, this is the most uninteresting species 

 of the United States. 



Yellow Pine. Pinus mitis. 



This tree is widely dif- 

 fused in North America, and 

 is known in different places 

 by different names : in the 

 Middle States, where it is 

 abundant and in common 

 use, it is called Yellow Pine, 

 in the Carolinas and Georgia, 

 Spruce Pine, and more fre- 

 quently Short-Leaved Pine. 

 Towards the north, this 

 species is not found beyond 

 certain districts of Connec- 

 ticut, Massachusetts and 

 New Hampshire. It is 

 plate lxiv. multiplied in the lower part 



Fig. 1. A leaf. Fig. 2. A cone. Fig. 3. A seed. r AT T i .*ii 



oi New Jersey, and still 

 more so on the eastern shore of Maryland and in the lower parts 

 of Virginia, where it is seen only upon arid soils. It is also met 

 with in New York, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, the Carolinas, 

 Georgia, East Tennessee, the Floridas and probably in Louisiana. 

 In these regions it generally grows on spots consisting of beds of 

 clay mingled with gravel. 



In New Jersey and in Maryland this tree is 50 or 60 feet 

 high, and is commonly of an uniform diameter of 15 or 18 

 inches for two-thirds of this distance ; in Virginia and the upper 

 part of the Carolinas there are stocks of nearly the same height 

 and of twice this diameter. The leaves are four or five inches 

 long, fine, flexible, hollowed on the inner face, of a dark green, 

 and united in pairs ; sometimes, from luxuriancy of vegetation, 



