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that form of the species which they distributed as 

 P. tatar'ica, but which is now known, after its intro- 

 ducer, as Pallasiana. 



The variety monspelien'sis, better known as 

 pyrena'ica, which Parlatore considers a mere form 

 of his tenui folia, was introduced from the moun- 

 tains of Southern Spain in 1834 by Captain Samuel 

 Cook, who afterwards took the name Widdrington ; 

 and the variety austriaca, from Austria, by Messrs. 

 Lawson in 1835. 



The typical Corsican Pine is somewhat slender in 

 the trunk, reaching 80 or 120 feet in height, and 

 more than three feet in diameter, with a pyramidal 

 outline, but often becoming umbrella-like in old age. 

 In Corsica it is said to reach 150 feet in height. The 

 bark is reddish -grey, not unlike that of the Scots Fir, 

 and cracks and scales off in large thin plates, much 

 as it does in that species, exposing a paler reddish- 

 brown inner cortex. The branches are given off in 

 whorls of five or six, horizontally or downwards, but 

 often turning upward at their extremities, much as in 

 the Cluster Pine, from which it is distinguished, how- 

 ever, by a general lateral twist of the branches round 

 the tree, as it were. The twigs are at first pale green, 

 becoming reddish-brown at the end of the second 

 year. The buds are incrusted with a copious white 

 resin, the scales fringed with silvery hairs. Like 

 those of other Pines, each of these buds is, as Professor 

 Marshall Ward puts it, "a bud of buds," each of its 

 many spirally-arranged scales, with the exception of 

 a few at the base, having in its axil the bud of a 

 dwarf shoot. This consists of a few minute brown 



