©ICLINIA CONIFERS. PinUS. 
641 
Icon. Lamlert. 1. c. 
In Nova Scotia and about Hudson’s Bay. . May. v. s. 
i This species of Spruce Fir is nearly related to the pre- 
!i ceding. Jt is, as yet, a very scarce tree in the gar- 
jl dens. 
I P. foliis solitariis tetragonis incurvis, strobilis subcylin- 
dricis laxis, squamis obovatis integerrimis. Lamheri, 
j monogr. p. 39. t. 26. 
i P. laxa, Ehrh. heitr. 3. p. 24. 
I p, canadensis. Du Roi harhk. 2 . t. 124. 
! Icon, homhert. 1. c. Mich. ari. 1. t. 12, Waugh, a- 
j mer. 5. t. \ . f. 2. 
In similar situations with P. nigra, Tj . May. v. v. 
1 The White Spruce is of lower growth than the Black 
j Spruce, its wood not so good as that, and its branches 
i unfit for making spruce beer. 
** Foliis pluribus, basi vaginalis. Pinus. 
8. P. foliis brevibus geminis, strobilis recurvis oblongo-co- mops, 
nicis longitudine foliorum, aculeis squamarum subu- 
I latis rectis. — Lamlert. monogr. p. 18. t. 13. 
I P. virginiana. Du Roi harhk. 2 . p. 35. 
Icon. Lambert. /. c. Mich. arb. ]. r. 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 to an early decay. A. B. Lambert, Esq. 
in his magnificent Monograph on this interesting 
and useful genus, made similar observations, which 
the younger Michaux in his Arbres jorestiers, p. 60. has 
taken up as a point of criticism. On this subject 
Mr. Lambert favoured me with his observations re- 
specting this and some other remarks made by Mr. 
Michaux, which [ think proper here to insert j 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 theiq 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 fallacy ; I shall 
therefore beg of him to insert a few observations 
on the ditferent subjects to which they respectively 
|3eloDg, if they meet with his approbation and con- 
