968 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
£ P.k. 3 maritima. P. maritima Lamb. Pin. ed.2. t.6.— According to 
Mr. Lambert’s figure, the cones of this variety, in the different forms 
in which he has given it, are all larger than those of the species. A 
very doubtful variety. 
2 P. h. 4 genuénsis, P.genuénsis Cook.-- Does not appear, in foliage 
and habit, different from the species. The cone we possess is 3 in. 
long, and 14 in. in diameter at the broadest end, and regularly pyra- 
midal. The length of the stalk is 2 in. 
The leaves are of a deep green, 2 or 3 inches long, most commonly 2 in a 
sheath, but sometimes, though rarely, 3; and they 
are so disposed as to form a double spiral round 
the branches. They never remain longer than 
two years on the tree ; in consequence of which 
the branches of old trees have a naked appear- 
ance, and the head looks open, straggling, and 
thin. The male catkins are reddish, from 2in. 
to 8,in. in length, on short pedicels, disposed 
in branches of 30 or 40 together. The crest is 
large, proportionably to the size of the anthers, 
and is rounded. The female catkins are not, 
as is usual, placed at the extremity of the shoot 
of the year, but come out at the side of the shoot, 
and towards the middle of it ; they point outwards 
during their flowering, and are of a greenish hue, 
slightly tinged with red. The cones have very 
strong peduncles of half an inch or more in length ; 
and, as they advance in size, they take a direction » 
almost perpendicularly downwards. The tree 1795. P. halepénsis. 
grows rapidly when young, acquiring the height 
of 15 or 20 feet in ten years, ; 
2 10. P.pru’rtia Ten. The Calabrian Pine. 
Identification. Ten. Fl. Nap. Prod., p. 69. ; Synops., ed. alt., p. 66. ; Link Abhand., 1837, p. 176. 
Synonymes. P.conglomerata Grefer Pl. Exsicc., as quoted by Lambert ; Kalabrische Kiefer, Ger. 
Engravings. Lamb. Pin., vol. 3. t. 82.; and our jigs. 1795. and 1796., from Lambert, and from a 
young tree in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, sent there by Mr. Lambert. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves in pairs, very long, slender, wavy. Cones 
sessile, crowded, ovate, smooth. Scales truncate at the apex, 
flattish, umbilicate. (Lamb.) Buds (see jig. 1794.) 3in. long, 
and iin. broad; ovate, pointed, whitish, and wholly without 
resin ; centre bud surrounded by three smaller buds. Leaves 
from 32 in. to 4in. long on the young plant in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden ; but above 6in. long in Mr. Lambert’s figure. 
Sheaths, in both, less than 4in. in length. According to Link, a 
lofty tree, vying with P. Laricio. Calabria, on mountains, 
4000 ft. to 5000 ft. above the level of the sea. Height 70 ft. to 
80 ft. sometimes 100 ft. Introduced in 1836. 
Leaves in twos, rarely in threes, very long, slender, glabrous, wavy, spread- 
ing, about 9 in. long; light green, canaliculate above, convex beneath, serrulate 
on the margin, terminated by a small conical callous mucro ; sheaths about 
Zin. long, persistent, of an ash-brown colour, membranaceous, entire round 
the tops, guarded at bottom with a linear-lanceolate, revolute, bright brown, 
thread-like, ciliated scale (metamorphosed leaf). Cones sessile, generally in 
clusters, ovate, smooth, brownish, 2 in. to 3in. long. Cones truncate at the 
apex, flattish, trapezoidal, umbilicate, smooth, obsoletely 4-angled ; umbilicus 
dilated, depressed, somewhat hollow, ash-coloured. (.D. Don.) This species 
is nearly related to P. h. maritima, but it is readily distinguished both from 
it and P. halepénsis by its very long wavy leaves, and by its shorter, sessile, 
clustered cones, with the scales depressed and slightly concave at their apex. 
1794. 
