16S PINUS; OR 



No. 7. PiNUS Laricio, Poiret, the Corsican Pine. 

 Syn. altissima. Banks. 

 „ pyramidalis, Hort. 

 „ maritima, Alton, not Lamhert. 

 „ Poiretiana, Hort. 

 „ Corsicana, Hort. 

 „ Cebenensis, Hort. 



Leaves, two in a sheath, from four to six inches long, dark 

 green, often twisted, and rather slender for its class, and with 

 shorter sheaths. Cones, solitary, or in pairs, seldom more than 

 three or four inches long, and an inch and a half broad near the 

 base, conical, straight, or sometimes slightly curved near the 

 points. Scales, convex on the back, elliptic in their general 

 form, scarcely angular, very slightly elevated, and of a light, 

 yellowish-brown colour ; buds, ovate, with a long, narrow point, 

 and resinous. Seed-leaves from six to eight in number. 



A lofty tree, with its branches regularly in very distant 

 whorls, from 80 to 130 feet high, very common on Mount Etna, 

 ■where it forms woods at an elevation of from 4,000 to 6,000 

 feet. It also forms forests, according to Professor Tenore, on 

 the mountains of Sila, in Calabria, but it was first discovered in 

 Corsica, and has since been found spread over the countries of 

 the south of Europe, in Greece, Crete, and Spain. 



It forms a handsome, open, pyramidal-shaped tree, growing 

 very rapid, and coming to maturity in seventy or eighty years 

 after planting ; the wood is whitish, but brown near the centre, 

 very resinous, coarse, long-grained, elastic, easily worked, and 

 durable. There are the following varieties, viz. : — 



PiNUS Laricio Calabrica, Delamarre, the Calabrian Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Calabrica, Hort. 

 ,, Pinus stricta, Hort. 



Leaves on this variety are from six to eight inches long, 

 thickly set on the branches ; and the tree attains a large size 

 on tht^ mountains of Sila, in Calabria. 



