28' 



TAB. 9. 



PINUS liARICIO. 



CORSICAN PINE. 



PiNUS Lauicio, foliis' geminis prselongis patentlbus, vaginis suhintegris, strobilis ovatis rectis subsolltarils : 



squamis depressis obsolete 4-angulis. Don, in NeilVs Horticiil. Tour, p. 65^. 



Pinus Laricio. Poir. in Lam. Encycl, V. p. 339. Lam. et Decand. Flor. Fran. III. p. 274. Duham. Arb 



ed. alter, p. 239, t. 71 et 6?, f. 2. 



Pinus sylvestris £ maritima. Ait, ICexD. III. p. ^QQ. 



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Habitat in insulte Corsica montibiis summisj in Phrygice Ida Monte. P. B. Webb 



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Aibor <\[x\l, 56 ped., pulcherrima, pyramidata, ad aplccm attenuata^ cortice badio integro et epidcrmide 

 decidaa squamosa, tccta. Rami 8 — 10 in verticillls digestif breviorcs et densiores quarn Pino syhestri^ 

 Folia gemina^ numerosaj prtelonga (6 — 7"^iiicialia)j lenta, patentia^ acicularia, semicylindracea, subtLls 

 lucida; supra canaliculata atque leviter striata, margine scabr^ serrulata^ apicc mucrone corneo in- 

 structaj colore jucunde viridi. Vagince foliorum unciales, sublntegra^, argcnteo-fusc^, nitidis. Amenta 

 mascuia in apice ramulorum terminalia^ conferta, cylindracea, obtusa, unum v. sesquipollicom longa, 

 patula, incurva, basi squanils pluribus scariosis spadiceis bracteata. Antherw cuneato-oblong^, angu- 

 latce^ biloculares, snbtils rim^ diiplici longitudinali hiantcs, apicc crislS, subrotund^ convexS, niem- 

 branacca margine eroso-repaiida auctai. StrobiU sessihs, ovati, liorizontaliter porrecti, subsolitarii : 

 sqiiamis induratis, ligneis, cinereo-fuscis, apice cnneatis depressis, obsolete 4-angulis, spin^ umbonat^ 

 minute durissim^ armatis. Don in loc. cit, (addenda descriptioni amenta mascuia.) , .! 



In my former work I Iiave confounded this with Pinus maritima, from which it is widely different; and 



as Table 9, given there as the male branch of Pimis maritima, belongs to the present species, I have been 



induced to give the plate here afresh, with the addition of two cones, in order the more fully to obviate 



the mistake. The preceding description, together with the following accouni, was taken by Mr. Don from 



two fine trees whicli he saw in the Jardin du Roi at Paris in 1821, and published in the Appendix to 



Mr. Neill's interesting Horticultural Tour through France and the Netherlands. Mr. Don's account is 

 as follows: — 



" This tree is totally distinct from all the varieties of Pinus Syhestrio ; with which, however, it in some 

 respects agrees. The tree in the Arboretum on the buttcs is thirty feet high, and three feet in circum- 

 ference ; and immediately beside it is growing P. Sylvestris, or, as Professor Thouin calls it, P. Scotica, 

 The difference is at first sight very sLriking. P. Laricio is a much handsomer and finer tree, and is of a 

 more pyramidal habit. Its branches are shorter and more regularly verticiUate. Its leaves are a third 

 longer, and of a lively green, with their sheaths nearly entire: lis cones are shorter, ovate, and t|uite 



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