Pinus 
Austriacus 
124 ARBORETUM NOTES: 
CONIFER. 
PINUS AUSTRIACA. 
Loudon, v. 4. 2205. 
Besides the tree near the pond (Lizard Lake) 
there are several planted on “‘the heath” close to 
the parish gravel pits; all are very thriving and 
bear cones abundantly. The tree appears to be. 
perfectly hardy, and to flourish very well here. It 
does not grow as rapidly im height as the Pimaster 
but forms a thicker and more bushy and compact 
head, of a peculiarly dark green, so that the name 
of Pinus nigricans is very appropriate. Even without 
cones, it is easily known from the Jinaster both by 
its darker leaves, and by the form of the buds, 
which is exactly that described and figured by 
Loudon in Imus larncio. 1 do -not See™ae 
Austriaca that interrupted arrangement of the 
leaves, in tufts, alternating with naked spaces, 
which is so conspicuous in Pinaster, and which 
Loudon notices in Laricio (p. 2202.) 
Pinus Austriaca is considered by Endlicher as 
a variety of /inus laricio, but Lindley in his 
enumeration of Coniferze in Horticultural Society’s 
Fournal, vol. 5., keeps it separate. The difference 
appears to be very slight, judging by the des- 
criptions and figures of Laricio. Whatever the true 
Pinus resinosa or Pinus rubra of North America may 
be, the tree that we have at Barton, under the name 
of Pinus resinosa differs in nothing (that I can see) 
from Austriaca. 
