BLACK PINE 185 



Cone pendent or spreading on a curved stout stalk, 

 2 5 7 cm. long, ovoid or sub-globose with oblique base, 

 acute or obtuse; varying from yellowish to greenish or 

 brownish-grey and dull. 



Leaves about 90150 (80160) 7nm. long, 

 dark green, stiff and rather blunt. Cones 

 about 50 75 (45 75) mm. long, ovoid to 

 ovoid-conic, shining yelloioish-brown or with 

 flesh-coloured apophysis. The ^ cone yellow, 

 15 25 mm. long. 



Pinus Laricio, Poir, var. Austriaca. Black Pine, 

 Austrian Pine (Fig. 50). 



Male flowers 15 25 mm. long, cylindroid, sub-sessile, 

 brilliant yellow. Stamens shortly stalked, with long 

 pollen-sacs, and erect, broad rounded, slightly toothed 

 anther-process. Pollen ellipsoid, smooth, with two ellipsoid 

 air-balloons. 



Female flowers sub-terminal, small, single, or in pairs 

 or threes, longish, bright red, sub-sessile ; scales shorter 

 than placenta. 



Cone 5 8 cm., sessile, erect outstanding or somewhat 

 deflected, long-ovoid or ovoid-globose, bright yellowish to 

 yellow-brown. Apophysis convex, the upper rhomboid 

 irregular, middle and lowermost rounded at upper margin 

 or even pentagonal, shining, with a large pale-brown or 

 greyish umbo. 



[The Black or Austrian Pine is distinguished from the 

 Scots Pine by its larger leaves and cones, both ^f and $ , 

 the latter red when young, and shining, yellowish-brown, 

 or somewhat flesh-coloured, when mature ; and its dark 

 coarse bark. The latter, together with the deeper hue 

 of the foliage, gives the tree a sombre hue, almost black in 

 masses.] 



