368 PIN US PYRENAICA. 



Pinus pyrenaica. 



A tree of variable dimensions, the trunk 6080 or more feet high 

 with an open diffuse head ; smaller trees with a more dense habit. 

 Branches spreading, often curved or tortuous, covered with ash-brown 

 bark ; braiichlets slender, at first green, afterwards reddish brown, and 

 marked with the scars of the fallen leaves. Buds ovoid-conic, acute, 

 about 0'5 inch long with whitish peralse. Leaves geminate, persistent 

 about three years, slender, semi-terete with slightly scaberulous margins, 

 4*5 6'5 inches long; basal sheath whitish, 0'75 inch long, shorter, and 

 darker the second year. Staminate flowers numerous in an oblong 

 spike, cylindric, obtuse, 0'5 inch long, the anthers with an orange- 

 yellow, orbicular and crenulate connective. Cones solitary or in clusters 

 of two six, sub-sessile, horizontal, ovoid-conic, acute, about 3 inches 

 long and nearly 2 inches in diameter at the broadest part, glossy 

 chestnut-brown; apophysis of scales nattish, rhomboidal with a shallow 

 transverse keel and short pyramidal umbo.* 



Finns pyrenaica,, Lapeyrouse, Plant, pyren. 146 ; and Suppl. 63 (1813). London, 

 Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2209 (in part). Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 180. Carriers, 

 Traite Conif. ed. II. 503. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 384. Beissner, 

 Nadelholzk. 225. Masters in Gard. Chron. IV. ser. 3 (1888), p. 267. with fig. ; 

 and Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 238. 



P. Brutia, Tenore. Fl. neap. V. 266, t. 200 (1835). Lambert, Genus Pinus, III. 

 125, t. 82. Loudon, Ark et Frut Brit. IV. 2234, with figs. Link in Linnaea, 

 XV. 497. Gordon, Pinet. ed II. 432. Boissier, Fl. orient, V. 696. 



P. carica, Don, Ann. Nat. Hist. VIII. 458. 



P. Loiseleuriana, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 500. 



P paroliniana, Webb. P. hispanica, Qook-Widdrington. 



The geographical range of Pinus pyrenaiea may be stated in 

 general terms to extend through the Mediterranean region from 

 the Pyrenees to the Levant and Asia Minor whence it spreads 

 eastwards through northern Persia into Afghanistan as far as Herat.! 

 It occurs on many of the mountain ranges throughout this region 

 at altitudes of 2,000 to 6,000 feet ; -in the more densely inhabited 

 parts of the Mediterranean littoral it is seen only in groups or 

 groves separated by a considerable interval from each other ; on the 

 lower slopes of the Cilician Taurus it forms extensive forests for 

 the most part unmixed with other trees. 



This Pine was first specifically distinguished under its present 

 name by the French botanist Lapeyrouse who detected it 011 the 

 Spanish slopes of the Pyrenees in the first decade of the nineteenth 

 century. Some years later it was discovered on the mountains of 

 Calabria in southern Italy by Professor Tenore of Naples who described 

 it in his " Flora neapolitana " under the name of P. brutia, he being 

 probably unaware of its identity with the Pyrenean Pine of Lapeyrouse. 

 It was introduced into British gardens in 1834 by Mr. Aylmer Lambert 

 under Tenore's name ; and about the same period a variety of 

 P. Laricio, described in pfige 339 as P. Laricio monspeliensis, was 

 introduced from Spain by Captain Widdrington and distributed as 



* The above 'description of foliage and cones from materials communicated by the late 

 M. Charles Naudiu from the Villa Thuret Botanic garden, Antibes. 

 t Boissier, Flora orientalis, Jo<\ clt. supra t 



