296 PINUS, OR 



long, and two inches and a half broad, ovate, erect, and of a 

 violet colour. Scales one inch broad, and the same in the 

 widest part, slightly hooked, and not thickened at the point, 

 but blunt ; those nearest the base much smaller and recurved. 

 Seeds very large, wingless, and eaten in Switzerland. 



An erect tree, of a bluntish pyramidal shape, regularly 

 furnished with branches down to the ground, thickly clothed 

 with foliage, and attaining a height of 50 feet. Timber very 

 soft, but very fine in the grain ; fragrant and resinous. 



This tree is found in the highest regions of the Alps, from 

 the Tyrol to Mount Cenis, between 4000 and 6500 feet of 

 elevation. It is also found on the northern slope of the Alps, 

 from Austria to Savoy, and Dauphine, and occurs on the Car- 

 pathian Mountains, and on the Altai. 



It is the " Aphernousli" Pine of the Tyrolese, the " AraUa" 

 of Savoy, and the " Arth" of Northern Italy and the Bernese 

 Oberland mountaineers. The Russian "Kedrovoi" has pro- 

 bably been misapplied to this tree ; as the Cedar is nowhere 

 indigenous to Russia, and, consequently, could not have an 

 original Sclavonic designation. The varieties are : — 



PiNUS Cembra monophylla, Carrilre, the One-leaved Cembra 



Pine. 



This very singular variety of the Siberian Stone Pine has 

 much slenderer branchlets, and the leaves so compressed, or 

 adhering together along their whole length, in each sheath or 

 set, as to appear but one leaf. 



It is of French origin, and very curious. 



PiNUS Cembea Sibieica, Loudon, the Siberian Stone Pine. 

 Syn. P. Cembra Rossica, Hart. 

 ,, „ Mandschurica, Regel. 



„ „ excelsa, Maximo. 



Leaves in fives, much shorter, more dense and of a brighter 

 green than those of the Swiss variety, with the cones longer, 



