YELLOW PINE. 
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is proved to exist, it forms the only merit of a tree too diminutive to be of 
any other utility ; in my opinion Sir A. B. Lambert mistakes, in supposing 
it capable of furnishing turpentine or tar as an article of commerce. 
PLATE CXXXYI. 
A branch with a cone of the natural size. Fig. 1 , A leaf. Fig. 2, A seed. 
YELLOW PINE. 
Pinus mitis. jP. arbor maxima ; foliis prælongis, tenuoribus , caniculatis ; stro- 
bilis parvis, scepe solitariis, conoideo-ovatis ; tessularum mucrone minutissimo . 
Pinus mitis. Mich. Flor. Bor. Am. 
This tree is widely diffused 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 frequently Short-leaved Pine. 
Toward the north, this species is not found beyond certain districts of 
Connecticut and Massachusetts ; it is multiplied in the lower part of New 
Jersey, and still more on the eastern shore of Maryland and in the lower 
parts of Virginia, where it is seen only upon arid soils. I have, also, met 
with it on the right bank of the river Hudson, at a little distance from 
Albany, at Chambersburg in Pennsylvania, near Mudlick in Kentucky, 
on the Cumberland Mountains and in the vicinity of Knoxville in East 
Tennessee, at Edgefield Court-house in the upper part of South Carolina, 
and on the river Oconee in the upper part of Georgia. In all these places 
it is united with other trees, and enters in a greater or less proportion into 
the composition of the forests, according to the nature of the soil. It 
abounds on the poorest lands ; on those of a certain degree of fertility, 
which is indicated by the flourishing appearance of the Oaks and Walnuts, 
