Pinus Laricio 407 



PINUS LARICIO^ 



Pinus Laricio^'^ Yo\x&\., Lamarck's Diet. v. 339 (1804); Lambert, Genus Pinus, i. 11, t. 4 (1832); 

 Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Bril. iv. 2200 (1838) ; Forbes, Pinetum Woburnense, 23 (1839) ; Parlatore, 

 DC. Prod. xvi. 2, p. 386 (1868) ; Masters, Gard. Ciiron. xx. 785, fig. 142 (1883); xxi. 18, fig. i 

 (1884) ; iv. 692 (1888), Journ. Lifiit. Soc. {Bot.) xxxv. 624 (1904) ; Willkomm, Forstliche Flora, 

 226 (1887) ; Mathieu, Flore Forestiere, 596 (1897) ; Kent, VeitcKs Man. Coniferce, 338 (1900). 



Pinus nigra, Arnold, Reise nach Mariazell, 8 (1785) ; Kirchner, Lebengesch. Blutenpfl. Mitteleuropas, 

 231 (1906). 



Pinus austriaca, HOss, Flora, viii. Beitrage, 113 (1825); Gard. Chron. ix. 275, figs. 49, 50 (1878). 



Pinus nigricans. Host, in Sauter, Versuch Geog. Bolan. Schilderung Umgeb. Wiens, 23 (1826). 



Pinus taurica, Loddiges, Cat. (1836). 



Pinus caramanica, Bosc. ex Loudon, op. cit. 2201 (1838). 



Pinus daltnatica, Visiani, Fl. Dabnat. i. 199 (1842). 



Pinus monspeliensis, Salzmann, ex Dunal, Alhn. Acad. Montpell. ii. 82 (1851). 



Pinus Salzmanni, Dunal, loc. cit. 



Pinus calabrica, cebennensis, ■scaA poiretiana, Hort, f.v Gordon, Pinetum, 168 (1858). 



Pinus Fenzleyi, Carriere, Rev. Hort., 1864, p. 259. 



Pinus Fenzlii, Antoine et Kotschy, ex Carriere, Conif. 496 (1867). 



Pinus pindica, Formanek, Verhandl. Naturf. Verein Brunn,xyxy\. 20(1896); Masters, Gard. Chron. 

 xxxi. 302, figs. 95, 96 (1902). 



A species very variable in habit, dimensions, and foliage, comprising several 

 different geographical forms, which under cultivation preserve in a great measure 

 their peculiarities. The following description is drawn up from wild specimens of 

 the Corsican tree, which is the finest form. 



A tree attaining 150 feet in height and 20 feet in girth. Bark on old trees 

 about an inch thick, deeply fissuring into irregular longitudinal plates, which exfoliate 

 in small rounded scales, leaving exposed pale brown, slight oval depressions where 

 they fall off. Buds \ to i inch long, elongated, abruptly contracted to an acuminate 

 apex, light brown in colour, tinged with white, the lowermost scales loose and 

 reflected, the uppermost bound together by white resin. Branchlets stout, glabrous, 

 brown in colour ; leaf-bases very prominent, keeled, and imbricated, persisting for 

 several years on the older leafless branchlets. 



Leaves, in pairs, densely covering the whole branchlet on barren shoots, forming 

 an apical cup-like tuft above, directed upwards and forwards below ; deciduous in the 

 fourth or fifth year ; stout, 4 to 6 inches long, about ^^ inch wide, straight or curved, 

 often twisted,' serrulate, ending in a short callous point ; semi-terete in section, with 



' The generic description of Pinus will be given in a later part. There is no English name in common use for the 

 whole species. Tlie different forms are well known, as the Corsican, Austrian, and Pyrenean Pines. 



2 The oldest name for the species is Finns nigra, Arnold, which has lately been revived by some German writers. We 

 adopt the name Pinus Laricio, Foiret, as it has been in general use for more than a century. 



Pinus pallasiana, Lambert, Genus Pinus, i. 13, t. 5 (1832), is impossible to recognise, being supposed by some to be 

 Pinus Laricio and by others to be Pinus Pinaster. 



Pimis tyrenaiaca, Lapeyrouse, Hist. PI. Pyrin., Suppl. 146 (1818), points, so far as the locaUty is concerned, to the 

 Pyrenean variety of Laricio ; but the description is doubtful. Mr. H. L. de Vilmorin, who gives a history of this name in 

 Bttll. Soc. Bot. Fi-ance, xl. p. Ixxvii (1893), considers it to refer to Pinus Bnitia ; but M. Calas, in his account of the Pin 

 Laricio de Salzmann, p. 22, controverts this opinion, and believes the description to apply to the Pyrenean Laricio. 



■" The twisting of the leaves, supposed to be characteristic of the Corsican variety, is an inconstant character. 



