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equalling those of the typical form on the mountains of Corsica, denuded of 

 branches for more than half the height and with a dome-shaped crown. 



P. Laricio var. austriaca, Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 179. P. austriaca, Hoss, 

 Monogr. der Schwarzfbhre, Wien (1831). London, Arb. et Fmt. Brit. IV. 2205. 

 P. Laricio nigricans, Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 387. P. leucodermis Antoine. 

 Austrian Pine. Pin noir d'Autriche. Oesterreichische Schwarzkiefer, etc 



var. monspeliensis. 



A more slender tree with more slender leaves of a brighter green ; 

 the bark of the branchlets with a more decided orange-red tinge than 

 in any of the Laricio forms; the habit of the tree during the first 

 twenty thirty years an elongated pyramid, which, with the bright 

 green foliage, gives it a distinctive character among Pines. 



P. Laricio var. monspeliensis,* Beissner, Nadelholzk. 242. P. pyrenaica, Gordon 

 Pinet. ed. II. 255 (not Lapeyrouse). P. Laricio tenuifolia, Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. 

 XVI. 387. P. Laricio leiophylla, Christ. Europ. Abiet. 15. 



var. Pallasiana. 



A broader tree with stout branches springing from near the ground 

 which sometimes ascend parallel with the trunk, but more frequently 

 (in dry localities) spread out so as to impart to the tree a broadly 

 pyramidal habit. The terminal buds more elongated than in the 

 typical Pinus Laricio, the leaves frequently longer and more slender, 

 and the cones larger and of more ovoid shape. 



P. Laricio Pallasiana, Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 179. P. Pallasiana, Lambert, 

 Genus Pinus, II. t. 1. London, Arb. et Frut Brit. IV. 2206, with tigs. P. Laricio 

 caramanica, Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan. XI. 385. P. Fenzlii, Antoine. And many others. 

 Crimean or Tartarian Pine. Laricio de Caramanie. Taurische Schwarzkiefer. 



The three varieties here described are geographical or climatic forms, 

 of which a fourth is admitted by some authors under the name of 

 ralabrica, but which is unknown in the British Pinetum. Besides these 

 climatic forms, a considerable number of deviations from them and also 

 from the type have appeared in the seed beds of horticulturists, as 

 Laricio pendula, Laricio pygmcea, austriaca aurea, etc., but none of 

 them are probably perpetuated in British nurseries at the present time. 



The geographical area inhabited by Pinus Laricio in a wild state 

 comprehends central and southern Europe, and western Asia within 

 the same latitude ; it extends in a longitudinal direction from the 

 Cilician Taurus to the Sierra de Cazorla in Spain, and in a 

 meridional direction from the Wiener Wald to Sicily. Its distribution 

 over this region is very unequal, and much interrupted ; on the 

 mountains it forms in places pure forests of considerable extent : 

 in other districts it occurs in groups or groves only. The form 

 here regarded as the type, P. Laricio proper, grows chiefly on the 

 mountains of Corsica and the maritime Alps of France and Italy. 

 The variety austriaca is a more inland tree, spread over the Austrian 

 provinces of Lower Austria, Carniola, Croatia, the Banat, and also 

 the northern half of the Balkan peninsula. The variety monspeliensis 



* This varietal name is preferred to pyrenaica, the name by which this Pine is best known 

 in Great Britain, to avoid confusion with the true Pinus pyrenaica. 



