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forming a narrower head; bark gray; branclilets reddish-brown: leaves 

 Hghter green, 4-6 inches long, less crowded and variously curved: cone with 

 the upper and middle apophyses obtusely keeled. Southern Europe. 



Var. cebennensis, Rehd. (var. leptophylla, Asch. & Graebn. var. tenuifolia, 

 Asch. & Graebn. P. Laricio tejmifolia. Pari. P. Salzinamiii, Dun. P. mon- 

 speliensis, Salzmann, P. cebennensis, Hort. P. horizontalis, Hort.). Fig. 87. 

 Tree to 60 feet tall; branclilets 

 orange-colored : leaves slender, 

 to 6J/^ inches long: cones small, 

 about 2 inches long. Southwest- 

 ern France, Pyrenees. — This is the 

 most distinct variety; of looser 

 and thinner habit and with very 

 long and slender leaves. 



There are a few horticultural 

 varieties of little importance, as 

 var. pendula, Rehd. {P. Laricio 

 pendula, Beiss.), with pendulous 

 branches; var. pygmaea, Rehd. 

 (P. Laricio pygmcea. Ranch); and 

 var. prostrata, Rehd. {P. Laricio-^ 

 prostrata, Beiss.), with prostrate 

 branches. 



27. P. Thunbergu, Pari. {P. 

 Massoniana, Sieb. & Zucc, not 

 Lamb.). Japanese Black P. 

 Fig. 88. Tree to 100 or occasion- 

 ally 120 feet tall, with spread- 

 ing, often somewhat pendulous 

 branches, forming a broad pyram- 

 idal, often irregular head; bark 

 blackish-gray, fissured into elon- 

 gated irregular plates; branchlets 

 orange -yellow; winter-buds 

 oblong, grayish- or silvery-white, 

 with fimbriate scales, free at the 

 tips: leaves stiff, sharply pointed, 

 bright green, 3-43^ inches long: 

 cones short-stalked, conic-ovate, 

 grayish-brown, 2-3 inches long; 

 apophysis flattened, with small 

 depressed umbo, obtuse or with 88. Pinus Thunhergii. 



