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OF THE GENUS PINUS. 625 
Dec. 15, 1888, p. 692, fig. 97; Maurice de Vilmorin, Revue 
Horticole, ex Garden and Forest, Oct. 20, 1897, p. 41; Mowille- 
Jert, Traité des Arbres et Arbustes, t. ii. (1892) p. 301. 
The nomenclature and synonymy of this species and its many 
varieties are involved beyond hope of extrication. The name 
Laricio of Poiret is here adopted as the one most generally em- 
ployed, but it is by no means certain that its claims to priority 
are valid. Linneus does not mention the species, nor is there a 
specimen in his herbarium. Plukenet, in his Almagestum (1696) 
p- 296, mentions a P. hispanica Laricio, which may refer to our 
present species. Reverting to post-Linnean times, Dr. Giinther 
Ritter Beck von Mannagetta says that P. nigra of Arnold, Reise 
nach Mariazell (1785) p. 8, has precedence over P. Laricio. 
Arnold’s plant is the same as that now generally known as 
P. Laricio, var. austriaca. Santi’s P. Laricio, dating from 
1795, is the same as Miller’s P. maritima (1768), which is the 
P. Pinaster of Solander and later writers. Our present plant 
is the P. maritima of Solander in Aiton, Hort. Kew. (1789), but 
this name, as we have just seen, had been previously employed 
by Miller (1768) for the Pinaster. 
The species figured by Miller as the Aleppo Pine in his 
“Figures of Plants,” described in the ‘ Gardeners’ Dictionary,’ 
vol. ii. (1760) tab. 208, seems referable rather to a form of 
P. Laricio than to P. halepensis. It is not possible to ascertain 
the position of the resin-canals in Miller’s figure ; were it other- 
wise, it would be easy to distinguish any form of P. Laricio 
with median canals from P. halepensis, in which they are always 
subepidermal. 
Parlatore considers the typical form to be equivalent to the 
var.a. Poiretiana of Antoine. The habitats for the typical form 
are the mountains of S.E. Spain, Southern France, Calabria, 
Corsica, Greece, and Western Asia Minor. 
The Italian botanist groups the numerous varieties under three 
subspecies :—/3. tenuifolia, y. nigricans, and 6. Pallasiana. 
In the £. tenuifolia varieties the leaves are relatively slender 
and soft, not rigid. Here are referred the varieties pyrenaica 
(not P. pyrenaica of Lapeyrouse), cebennensis, monspeliensis, 
Salzmanni, angustisquama, and leptophylla. This group 1s equi- 
valent to the subsp. 2. monspeliensis of Koehne. Lapeyrouse 8 
P. pyrenaica, for reasons given under the head of P. bruttia, 
may well be suppressed. Henry de Vilmorin, who studied the 
forms carefully in the Pyrenees, came to the conelusion that 
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