PINUS INOPS. 333 



Finns halepensis, Miller, Diet. ed. VIII. No. 8 (1768). Lambert, Genus Pinus, L 

 t. II. (1803). London, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2231, with tigs. Forbes, Pinet, 

 Woburn, 25, t. 8. Link in Lmniea, XV. 496. Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 180. 

 Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 383. Gordon, Pinet, 

 ed. II. 236. Boissier, Fl. orient. V. 695. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 223. Masters in 

 Gard. Chron. XXII. (1884), p. 552, with fig. ; and Jonrn. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 238.. 

 And many others. 



Pinus halepensis is spread almost continuously throughout the 

 Mediterranean region from Portugal to Palestine and Egypt, and 

 eastwards into the Trans-Caucasian provinces of Russia as far as 

 Georgia ; it is also common in west and south Anatolia, covering 

 the sand dunes of the Cilician coast westwards from Mersina. Its 

 association with the maritime scenery of the region, especially with 

 classic structures of ancient, and sacred buildings of medieval times- 

 has frequently attracted notice. In photographs of Greek temples 

 this Pine occurs singly or in small groups with picturesque effect 

 as regards its surroundings, but individually of no especial beauty; as 

 thus represented it usually has a slim trunk bare of branches for 

 more than one-half of its height with a gaunt crown of short 

 irregularly disposed branches clothed with a sparse foliage tufted at 

 the extremities of the branchlets. 



Pinus halepensis has been in cultivation in Great Britain since the 

 beginning of the eighteenth century, but owing to climatic causes it 

 is now but rarely seen in this country; the few specimens still 

 standing in the Royal Gardens at Kew and other places have to 

 sustain a continuous struggle with British winters to which, doubtless, 

 they will ultimately succumb. In the Australian colonies where it 

 was introduced many years ago, P. .halepensis grows faster and attains 

 a larger size than in its native habitat, but it has the same 

 unfurnished aspect. There are specimens in the Botanic Gardens of 

 South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales from 70 to 80 or 

 more feet high. 



The economic value of Pinus lialepensis in southern Europe and 

 the Levant is locally considerable ; the wood is white, with a fine 

 grain, and is used for joinery in Provence and Piedmont ; the resinous 

 products are in places much utilised and yield, it is said, a finer 

 turpentine than P. Pinaster, The late M. Carriere strongly 

 recommended the planting of P. halepensis near the sea in the south 

 and south-west of France, especially in places where no other tree will 

 thrive ; on rocks almost denuded of soil, and in places where no- 

 native plant will take root this Pine will grow ; it supplies excellent 

 fire-wood to the peasantry throughout the region. 



Pinus inops. 



A tree of variable height and habit ; at its greatest development 

 with a trunk 75 100 feet high and 2 3 feet in diameter near the 

 ground ; on the Atlantic littoral of the United States much less. In 

 Great Britain a short-lived, medium-sized or low tree rarely exceeding 

 40 feet in height, oftener much less, the trunks sometimes forked at 

 a short distance from the ground, slender, with dingy brown bark 



