THE CORSICAN PINE. 
Pi'nus Lari‘cio Poiret. 
Pinus Laricio, considered in a comprehensive sense, 
is believed to be the wevkyn idaia (pewke’ idat‘a) of 
Theophrastus, which he is at pains to distinguish 
from mevxn mapadlas (peu'ke’ para'lias), the Cluster 
Pine. It is interesting to note in this connection 
that Theophrastus was a native of Lesbos in the 
Agean, and that Philip Barker Webb, in 1818, found 
this Pine, or probably the variety Pallasia’na, of 
which we shall have more to say presently, on 
Mount Ida, in Phrygia, from which Theophrastus’s 
name was probably taken. 
In a wild state Pinus Laricio extends from Asia 
Minor, the Caucasus, and the Crimea to Crete, Sicily, 
Spain, and the Cevennes, to Lower Austria, Hungary, 
the Banat, and Transylvania. The form represented 
by this name, in a restricted sense, belongs mainly to 
Corsica and the Maritime Alps: the variety tenwi- 
folia, of Parlatore, represents the western develop- 
ment of the species: his Pallasiana, from Dalmatia, 
Servia, and Thessaly, is perhaps not identical with 
trees called by that name from farther east; but his 
variety nigricans is the form generally known as 
austri’aca, the inland, or Central European, type. 
These local forms differ widely in habit and in the 
elevations at which they grow—from 1,000 to 3,500 
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