DlCLlli'.K CONIFERS. FlHUS. ' 641 



Icon. Lamlert. I. c. 



In Nova Scotia and about Hudson's Bay. Tj . May. v. s. 

 This species of Spruce Fir is nearly related to the pre- 

 ceding". It is, as yet, a very scarce tree in the gar- 

 dens. 



P. foliis solitariis tetragonis incurvis, stn^bilis subcylin- ^' '"■' 



driris laxis, squamis obovatis integerriinis. Lamberl. 

 monogr. p. 39. /. '2.6. 



P. laxa. Ekrh. leilr 3. p. 24. 



P. canadensis. Du Roi harbk. 2. /. 124. 



Icon. Lambert. I.e. jYiitk. art. 1. t. 12. Wavgh. a- 

 mer. 5. I. \. f. 2. 



In similar situations with P. nigra. \ . May. v. v. 

 The ^Fhite Spruce is ot lower growth than the Black 

 Spruce, its wood not so good as lliat, and its branches 

 unfit for making spruce beer. 



** Foliis pluribus, last vaginalis. Pinus. 

 . P. foliis brevibus geminis, strobllis recurvis ob!ongo-co- zno/w. 



nicis longitudiiie foliorum, aculeis squgmarum subu- 

 lalls rectis. — Lambert, vionogr. p. 18. /. 13, 



P. virginiana. Du Rni hnrbk. 2. p. 35. 



Icon. Lambert. I. c. Mich. arb. 1. /. 4. 



In dry barren soil : New Jersey to Carolina. Tj . May. 

 V. V. The Jersey Pine, Pitch or Scrub Pine, is of 

 middle size, straggling growth, and full of resin. Its 

 branches are tougher than any other pine I know, and 

 might be used for several useful purposes if its wood 

 was not so apt tf) an early decay. A. B. Lambert, Es<). 

 in his magniticent Monograph on this interesting 

 and useful genus, made similar observations, which 

 the younger Michaux in his Aibres forestiers, p. 60. has 

 taken up as a point of criticism. On this subject 

 Mr. Laini)ert favoured me witii his observations re- 

 specting this and some other remarks made by Mr. 

 Ivlichau.\, which I think proper here to insert ; it is 

 in the following words : " The criticisms made by 

 Mr. Michaux on my ' Description of the genus Pinus* 

 are so inaccurate, that I did not think them worth my 

 notice before, nor should I now, were it not to pre- 

 vent Mr. Pursh from being misled by them, though I 

 believe he is already well aware of their fall.icy ; I sliall 

 therefore beg of him to insert a few observations 

 t.n the different subjects to which they respectively 



