THE CORSICAN PINE 19 
that form of the species which they distributed as 
P. tatar’ica, but which is now known, after its intro- 
ducer, as Pallasiana. 
The variety monspelien’sis, better known as 
pyrenaica, which Parlatore considers a mere form 
of his tenuifolia, was introduced from the moun- 
tains of Southern Spain in 1834 by Captain Samuel 
Cook, who afterwards took the name Widdrington ; 
and the variety wustriaca, from Austria, by Messrs. 
Lawson in 1835. 
The typical Corsican Pine is somewhat slender in 
the trunk, reaching 80 or 120 feet in height, and 
more than three feet in diameter, with a pyramidal 
outline, but often becoming umbrella-like in old age. 
In Corsica it is said to reach 150 feet in height. The 
bark is reddish-grey, not unlike that of the Scots Fir, 
and cracks and scales off in large thin plates, much 
as it does in that species, exposing a paler reddish- 
brown inner cortex. The branches are given off in 
whorls of five or six, horizontally or downwards, but 
often turning upward at their extremities, much as in 
the Cluster Pine, from which it is distinguished, how- 
ever, by a general lateral twist of the branches round 
the tree, as it were. The twigs are at first pale green, 
becoming reddish-brown at the end of the second 
year. The buds are incrusted with a copious white 
resin, the scales fringed with silvery hairs. Like 
those of other Pines, each of these buds is, as Professor 
Marshall Ward puts it, “a bud of buds,” each of its 
many spirally-arranged scales, with the exception of 
a few at the base, having in its axil the bud of a 
dwarf shoot. This consists of a few minute brown 
