1G6 PINUS ; OR 



head an opeHj thin, and straggling aspect ; buds, a quarter of 

 an inch long, imbricated, roundish, and entirely destitute of 

 resin. Cones, pyramidal, rounded at the base, smooth, solitary, 

 or in pairs, two and a half or three inches long, and one inch 

 and a half broad, inversely turned downwards, with a footstalk 

 three quarters of an inch long. Scales, nearly flat, one and a 

 quarter to one inch and a half long, and three quarters of an inch 

 broad, of a deep shining brown colour. Seeds, middle size, with 

 a wing nearly one inch long. Seed-leaves, seven in number. 



A low, spreading tree, growing from twenty to thirty feet 

 high, and ripening its cones in the autumn of the second year. 



It is not found to the north of the Apennines, but is very 

 common to the east and west of those mountains, as well as in 

 Sicily, growing both on sands and on rocks, but better on the 

 latter : its upper limits is 2,000 feet of elevation. 



It is also found in the South of France near Toulon, on the 

 island and mainland of Dalmatia, in Greece, Syria, Spain, and 

 Asia Minor. 



There is the following variety, viz. : — 



PiNUS Halepensis Pityusa, Stevens. 

 Syn. Pinus Pithyusa, Strangivays. 

 „ „ maritima, Lambert. 

 „ „ „ prima, Matthiol. 



„ „ Halepensis Syriaca, Rauch. 

 „ „ „ maritima, Loudon. 



„ ,j Abchasica, Fischer. 

 „ „ Abasica, Carriere. 

 ,, ,, Cairica, Don. 

 „ ,, Colchica, Booth. 



This variety differs from the species in having much longer 

 and larger cones, stiffer and longer leaves, and in the tree being 

 more compact, and growing to a much larger size. 



It is found growing plentiful on the shores of Abshasia, (hence 



one of its names), around Pezundan, the ancient Pityus, and 



from which circumstance also, it received the name of Pityusa, 



t- a name given by M. Steevens, and according to whose account 



