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A MANUAL OF THE CONIFERS. 



Pinus austriaca. — A tree of rapid 

 growth, with stout branches, rather longer 

 in proportion to the trunk, than in most 

 of the Pines in this section. The whorls 

 of branchlets are densely clothed with 

 blackish green foliage; the leaves are rigid, 

 sharp-pointed, rough at the edges, rounded 

 on one side, slightly channelled on the 

 opposite, and from 4 to 5 inches long. 

 The aspect of the Austrian Pine is sombre 

 and massive, whence it obtained the name 

 of Pinus nigra.* 



Habitat. — The mountains of Carniola, lower 

 ^^^^K| Austria, Moravia, Transylvania, and other 

 ■ ^W provinces of the Austrian Empire. 



Introduced into Great Britain in 1835, 

 by Messrs. Lawson, of Edinburgh. 



* The Austrian Pine is described by Parlatore as a 

 Fig. 36.-Cone of linm amtriaca. variety _ of Pinus Larido, " foliis .crassioribus rigidioribus 



Natural size. 



fuseo-viridibus." Prod, xvi., p. 387. 



