250 PINUS, OH . 



lower mountains of the northern and central Apennines, the 

 variety with shorter leaves and smaller cones (minor) prefers 

 the lower mountains, while the larger coned and longer leaved 

 form prefers the sandy plains, but neither is found south of the 

 Apennines. Its highest limit is 2800 feet above the sea in 

 Upper Italy. It is found in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and 

 Turkey, also on the French coast of the Mediterranean, where 

 it is employed for covering immense tracks of sand along the 

 shore, and in the island of Brazza, on the Dalmatian coast in 

 the Gulf of Venice. It is also found (but no doubt introduced 

 from Europe) in China, Japan, New Holland, New Zealand, 

 and St. Helena, and even in the North of India, where Major 

 Madden and other travellers detected it in Nepal, and gave it 

 the names of P. Nepalensis and P. Latteri, but there is not 

 the slightest difference between the European and Asiatic 

 plants. 



It grows freely exposed to the sea breezes, and is one of our 

 commonest firs, but the wood is soft, and not very durable; 

 there are the following varieties : 



Pin us Pinaster Hamiltonii, Tenor e, Lord Aberdeen's Pine. 



Syn. Pinus Pinaster major, Du Hamel. 

 Hamiltonii, Tenore. 

 Escarena, Hort. Soc. 

 Pinaster Escarena, Loudon. 

 Aberdonise, Loudon. 



altissima, Laniard: 



Leaves of a paler green, much broader and shorter than those 

 of the species. Cones shorter, and more ovate. It was first 

 pointed out to the Earl of Aberdeen, in 1825, by M. Risso, at 

 Nice, where it is found sparingly on the mountains in that 

 neighbourhood, and from whence seeds were obtained by his 

 lordship. It is a very distinct and handsome variety. 



