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sought for in the neighborhood where it grows, the presumption is that it cannot be very valu- 
able. This, however, is only a negative testimony against it, for it is surrounded and asso- 
ciated with other trees which are much superior. to it in size and beauty. 
- Pinus.—An undetermined species. 
High up in the mountains east of Sonora, (almost in the snowy regions,) and also at Paien 
Pass, a pine was discovered very nearly related to the yellow pine of this country, (P. b 
chyptera,) but the cone is larger and more cylindric; the scales armed with a strong d 
spine; the leaves longer, regularly in threes, and with a longer sheath. A very good figure 
was made of this pine > by our artist, Móllhausen. It isa large | tree, with a lighter-colored bark ` 
than the P. brachyptera, and fally as valuable for its timber. I am not certain thatitis a 
new species. 
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