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one, and therefore think the name of P. maritima should be pre- 

 served to the present species. 



5. P. Laricio. Leaves in pairs, rigid, and longer than the sub- 



duplex strobile. Strobiles conical, sessile; scales with an 

 obtuse longitudinal keel, and a transverse acute one in the 

 middle of the umbilicus, terminating in a mucro. 



This species constitutes forests on the western summit of 

 Tauria, sometimes descending even to the shore, but never 

 passing over to the northern declivity. I have also received it 

 from Gelintschik, a port on the eastern shore of the Black Sea, 

 100 leagues from the mouths of the Hypanis. The branches from 

 Iberia, recorded in the Flora Taurico-Caucasica, 3. 627., I believe 

 to belong to P. sylvestris. 



Marschall von Bieberstein has rightly distinguished this from, 

 the preceding, considering it to be P. Laricio; nor do I think it] 

 any other, from comparing specimens from Corsica and the Pari$[ 

 Garden. Link (Lhmcea, 1. c.) says that P. PaWasiana, which i$ s 

 the P. taurica La?nb., differs but little from his P. Pinaster ; bufo 

 this, in my opinion, is the same with P. Laricio. But I do no& 

 think P. nigra Link (P. Pinaster Schult., P. austriaca Tratf^ 

 another species; for the slightest differences in the shield of t|j$> 

 scales, and the wings of the seed, in a genus so variable, are t^QM 

 sufficient to separate species. [ - ia 



In ours the wing of the seed is nearly an inch long, below (tjh&i 

 middle a third of an inch broad ; the apex is sharpish, a'nl&- 

 nearly equally marked with ferruginous dew, and not, as irfr^Vt 

 sylvestris, quite transparent between the brown bundles of nerves. 



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6. P. sylvestris. Leaves in pairs, nearly as long as the o^afe- 



conic short-peduncled strobile. Scales with a promj|Mnt 

 dorsal tubercle, often hooked backwards. 



Rare on both declivities of the Taurian Mountains, occu$yiflgj 

 only the highest regions ; in Imeretia and the peak of Adsfeajft) 

 towards the sources of the Kur, sufficiently freqnent; in (£ejEU>jaJj 

 Caucasus it here and there forms forests, while it is altpgef&e-ft 

 wanting towards the east. , a 9{ jj no 



It occurs in Tauria with slenderer and thicker leayfe% f {R[ith, 

 subrotund very short-peduncled strobiles, and others lon^fiPjipjrtjTf 

 and with sharpish scales, the middle ones with a scarcely $&&) 

 minent tubercle, the lowest a little, but still evidently, f rep 1 u i rv§{lfj 

 This is nearly Ledebour's description of P. sylvestris, ftisjjfe^ar 

 (Ft. Alt., 4. 199.). I have a specimen from Iberia, jwitlfoyf^j 

 peduncle a very little longer, and all the scales wifll) % lit^Q, 

 straight tubercle. Branchlets from the sub-alpine yegiQj$S;jjonA 

 the Terek, between Casbek and Kobi, bear broader lefty®^ jvj&hi 

 a more rigid and pungent apex, a shorter-peduncl44i&M@!Mi#Jj 



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