Pinus Laricio 409 



This name is given in England to trees with numerous stout branches, the lower- 

 most of which ascend parallel to the trunk ; but in foliage scarcely different from the 

 Austrian pine.^ The cones are usually larger than in that variety and have the 

 radiating cracks strongly marked. This form is supposed to have come from the 

 Crimea. The Laricio which occurs in the Crimea, Asia Minor, and the 

 Caucasus appears, however, to be identical with the Austrian form. 



Var. caramanica, Loudon, loc. cit. (var. Karamana, Masters, Gard. Chron. 1884, 

 xxi. 480, fig. 91). This is the Austrian pine as regards the foliage ; but producing 

 extraordinarily large cones, up to four inches or more in length. It is supposed to 

 be identical with a form introduced into Paris by Olivier, who sent seeds in 1 798 from 

 Caramania in Asia Minor ; but is perhaps only a mere sport of the common 

 Austrian pine. The only specimens known to us are two trees at Syon, grown on 

 the lawn west of the mansion ; and one of these measured, in 1903, 72 feet by 8 feet 

 6 inches. 



3. Var. tenuifolia, Parlatore, loc. cit. (vars. pyrenaiaca et cebennensis, Grenier et 

 Godron, Flore de France, iii. 153 (1856). Pinus monspeliensis, Salzmann. Pinus 

 Salzmanni, Dunal). Pyrenean Pine. Cevennes and Pyrenees. 



Small trees, often stunted in growth, with remarkably slender leaves, only half 

 the thickness of the other forms. Young branchlets orange-coloured. Cones 

 smaller than in the Corsican variety. Owing to its slow growth, the annual shoots 

 are very short, and the older branchlets remain slender and bare of leaves for a great 

 distance behind the short tuft of leaves at their extremities. 



Pinus leucodermis, Antoine, treated by us as a distinct species, is considered by 

 many authorities to be only an alpine form of Laricio ; and there appear to be 

 similar forms occurring in high regions elsewhere, as Pinus Fenzlii, Carriere, 

 which resembles P. leucodermis in having short leaves, almost appressed together 

 in the bundles. 



Pinus pindica, Formanek, reported as growing in the Pindus and the Thessalian 

 Olympus, is not recognised by Halacsy ; ^ and is probably only a slightly aberrant 

 form of the ordinary Corsican variety. It has been fully described and figured in 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, loc. cit., by Dr. Masters. 



Horticultural varieties of Laricio are few and unimportant. Beissner' mentions 

 pendulous, variegated, and dwarf forms. A golden variety * of the Austrian pine, 

 said to have been raised or introduced by Mr. Mongredien of the Heatherside 

 Nursery, has the leaves, especially those on young growths, tipped with gold. 

 Ilsemann* saw a tree, in which the leaves were beautifully variegated with yellow, 

 growing wild in a forest in Hungary. A peculiar form of Austrian pine with stout 

 falcate leaves has been observed at Breslau." 



' Probably some trees called Pallasiana, on account of their habit, are really of Corsican origin. 

 ' Consp. Fl. Griica, iii. 452 (1904). 



Nadelholzkunde, 243 (1891). Masters saw at Moser's Nursery, Versailles, in 1903, a dwarf variety of very compact 

 habit with dense bright green foliage : Gard. Chron. xxxiv. 338 (1903). 

 * Gard. Chron. xvi. 507 {1881) and ii. 730, 785 (1883). 

 ' Gartenflora, 1897, p. 643. Baenitr, Gartenflora, 1903, p. 58. 



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