300 Capt. S. E. Cook on Pinus and Abies. 



of trees, was traversed by me in its greatest extent, and from 

 it my descriptions are taken and the cones were brought which 

 through the Horticultural Society and other channels have 

 been circulated through England. Those which are now sold 

 and figure under the inappropriate name oi pyrenaica are from 

 a forest of much less extent in Upper Aragon, at the south 

 foot of the Pyrenees. The reason for not conferring a spe- 

 cific name upon the species of Segura when introduced by me 

 was, that having previously seen the forest of Aragon I be- 

 lieved the species to be formed of the same pine, and having 

 information on which I could rely that those of an extensive 

 district in the Sierra de Cuenca was probably identical with 

 these, and knowing that the species was confined to Spain, the 

 appropriate name of hispanica was proposed, in order to pre- 

 vent the multiplication of names as much as possible, and at 

 the same time give the clearest idea of the arboreal vegetation 

 of the country, which no one had before attempted. The tree 

 then as introduced and described by me is the Pine of Segura ; 

 and that known in the catalogues as P.pyrenaica is from Ara- 

 gon, which I believe and have assumed to be identical with it, 

 but do not positively assert that it is so. The points of di- 

 stinction between this species and its neighbour the Laricio as 

 indicated were sufficiently numerous, but two others were 

 omitted : the P. Laricio is so resinous that it was used at 

 Toulon for masts ; the P. hispanica is so dry in its texture as 

 to be quite unfit for that purpose, and could only be used, even 

 in their direful scarcity of native timber, in the arsenals of 

 Cadiz and Carthagena for decks and similar uses which do not 

 require elasticity, and the timber for which is quite of a dif- 

 ferent quaUty from that used for masts. 



In my original account of the species it was stated, that the 

 cones, after being some time shut up in a box, exhaled a deli- 

 cious perfume, which quickly evaporated. Whilst writing this 

 paper it occurred that the same quality might distinguish the 

 buds of the species, and on rubbing them I found that the tur- 

 pentine of the Laricio is strong and coarse in flavour, like 

 those of the northern species, its scent remaining long on the 

 fingers, whilst that of the hispanica is light, aromatic, and 

 highly volatile. I have no doubt that a fine and peculiar bal- 



