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on old trunks reddish brown, fissured, and scaly. Young branchlets glabrous, 

 glaucous grey, flexible, with slightly raised pulvini. Buds conical, slender, less than 

 in. long, brownish white ; scales interlaced by white fimbriated margins, with 

 the tips free and often reflexed. Base of the shoot girt with a sheath of reflexed 

 bud-scales. 



Leaves in pairs, persisting two years, i\ to 4 in. long, slightly spreading, 

 slender (about -fa in. wide), curved, twisted in the upper third, serrulate, short- 

 pointed, with stomatic lines on both surfaces ; resin-canals marginal ; basal sheath \ 

 in. long, persistent. 



Cones, solitary or two or three together, lateral, spreading or deflexed, on thick 

 scaly stalks (about \ in. long), ovoid-conic, 2 to 3 in. long ; scales shining, yellowish 

 brown, oblong, flat, about an inch long and f in. wide ; apophysis rhomboidal, flat, or 

 slightly raised towards the centre, with a transverse linear ridge ; umbo greyish, de- 

 pressed, often with a slight ridge, unarmed. Seed, nearly \ in. long, light brown 

 on the lower and blackish on the upper surface ; wing pale brown with a dark border, 

 nearly an inch in length. The cones are variable in direction, though often directed 

 backwards, and are irregular in the time of opening, some remaining closed till 

 May in the third year, others not letting out the seeds till the fifth or sixth year. 



Variety 

 Var. Brutia. 



Pinus Brutia, Tenore, Flora Napolitana, i. Prod. p. lxxii (181 1), iv. 136 (1830), and v. 266, f. 200 



(1835) ; Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2234 (1838) ; Boissier, Flora Oriental's, v. 695 (1884) ; 



Masters, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxv. 608 (1904). 

 Pinus resinosa, Loiseleur, in Nouveau Duhamel, v. 237 (1812) (not Solander). 

 Pinus Pithyusa, 1 Steven, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. i. 49 (1838). 

 Pinus persica, Strangways, in Loudon, Gard. Mag. xv. 130 (1839). 

 Pinus Loiseleuriana, Carriere, Conif. 382 (1855). 

 Pinus Paroliniana, Webb, ex Carriere, Conif. 391 (1855). 

 Pinus pyrenaica? Carriere, Conif. 391 (1855); Masters, in Gard. Chron.'w. 267, f. 32 (1888); Kent, 



Veitch's Man. Coniferce, 368 (1900); Mayr, 3 Fremdldnd. Wald- u. Parkbdume, 360 (1906). 

 Pinus Parolinii, Visiani, Mem. 1st. Venet. vi. 243 (1856). 

 Pinus Eldarica, Medwejew, in Act. Hort. Tiflis, vi. 2, p. 21 (1902), and Bdutne u. Strduche Kaukasus, 



i. 20 (1907); Masters, in Gard. Chron. xxxiv. 251 (1903). 



This is a geographical variety of P. halepensis, distinguished by its longer, darker 

 green, and more rigid leaves, 4 to 6 in. in length. The cones, 4 which occasionally 

 arise in whorls of three to six, are never deflexed, but always spreading or pointing 

 forwards, and are in rare cases sub-sessile. The staminate flowers are also larger 



1 Referred to P. Brutia by Lipsky, in Act. Hort. Petrop. xiv. 309 (1898). According to Loudon, Gard. Mag. xv. 130 

 (1839), the cone is like that of P. halepensis in the strong woody peduncle. 



2 Probably not P. pyrenaica, Lapeyrouse, Hist. Abrigic PI. Pyrin. Suppl. 146 (1818), occurring in the Pyrenees, and 

 identified by Calas with the Pyrenean variety of P. Laricio. Cf. our vol. ii. 407, note 2. The large forests of P. pyrenaica 

 in Spain, described by Captain Cook, are P. Laricio. Cf. Willkomm, Pflanzenverb. iberischen Halbinsel, 109 (1896). 



3 Mayr places P. halepensis and var. Brutia in different sections, though the character on which he relies for this dis- 

 tinction, the position of the cones, is identical in both. 



* All the specimens of P. Brutia in Parlatore's herbarium at Florence are from cultivated trees, and differ only from 

 P. halepensis in their longer leaves and larger cones. So far as I could judge from these, and from a Calabrian specimen, the 

 differences between this variety and typical P. halepensis simply depend on the greater vigour of the former, due to better soil 

 and climate. 



