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Seeds greyish or black, twice as large as those of P. sylvestris. Cotyle- 

 dons (see fig. 2083.) 6 to 8. 

 Varieties. Judging from the names in Continental catalogues, these are nume- 

 rous ; but, as these names are chiefly expressive of different localities, we 

 are ignorant how far the plants are really distinct. In the Nouveau Du 

 Hamely only one variety is given, which is characterised by the cones being 

 greenish, those of the species being described as of a tawny or fawn 

 colour. Delamarre, in his Traite Pratique, &e., enumerates five 

 varieties, some of which, however, are considered by M. Vilmorin 

 as being probably species; the cones not having yet been seen. 

 • V.LAcorsicdna ; Laricio del' He de Corse, Delamarre. — Cones 



of a tawny or fallow colour. 

 ± P. L. 2 subviridis Nouveau Du Hamel. — Cones of a greenish 



yellow. 

 1 P. L. 3 caramanica ; P. caramanica Bosc ; P. caramaniensis 

 Bon Jard.y ed. 1837, p. 974.; Laricio de Caramanie, ou de 

 l'Asia Mineure, Delamarre ;? P. romana Lond. Hort. Soc. 

 Gard. — P. L. caramanica seldom grows to above half the 

 height of P. L. corsicana : it has a much rounder and 

 more bushy head, with straight, or nearly straight, leaves, 

 slender branches, reddish-coloured bark, and reddish buds, 

 which are wholly, or in part, covered with white resin. The 

 scales of the cones, which are larger than those of P. 

 L. corsicana, are tipped with a harder and more horny 

 point. This pine was introduced into France by Olivier, 

 the author of Travels in the Levant , in the year 1798 ; 

 and there were trees of it, producing cones with fertile 

 seeds, in the grounds of Malmaison, in 1836. There is 

 also a tree in the garden of M. Perignon, at Auteuil ; one 

 in the nursery of M. Noisette ; and another in that of M. 

 Cels, fils, which has ripened seeds. Delamarre remarks that 2083 

 this variety is, in the French nurseries, erroneously called P. romana ; 

 and, as the tree bearing this name in the garden of the London Hor- 

 ticultural Society, now 20 ft. high, was received from Godefroy 

 of Ville d'Avray, near Paris, in 1825 or before, it is most probably 

 this variety. Seeds of this variety were sent to us from Germany 

 in 1829, under the name of P. resinosa, and the plants which have 

 been raised from them are found, at Methven Castle, to produce 

 annual shoots surpassing in length those of the common Scotch 

 pine, near to which they are planted. Mr. Bishop states that 

 this variety bids fair to become available for the poorer soils of 

 Scotland. (See High. Soc. Trans. , vol. xi. p. 124.) 

 1 P. L. 4 caldbrica ; Laricio de Mont Sila en Calabre, Delamarre. — This 

 pine, Michaux and Vilmorin remark, in a note to Delamarre's work, 

 resembles the pine of Caramania; but, as there are only young 

 plants of it in France, which have not yet fruited, very little can be 

 said about it. It was introduced into France by M. Vilmorin in 

 1819, 1820, and 1821 ; and 100 lb., of seeds, containing about three 

 millions, distributed. 

 IP. L. 5 austriaca; Laricio d'Autriche, ou de la Hongrie, De lamarre. — 

 Noisette is said to have found this variety in Hungary ; but, accord- 

 ing to Michaux and Vilmorin, in their notes to Delamarre's Traite, 

 &c, it scarcely differs from P. caramanica, which they say grows 

 also in Romania, and in the Crimea. The P. austriaca of Hoss 

 (Anleit. die Bdame und Strduche Oesterreichs, &c, p. 6.), judging 

 from the author's description, and from comparing the buds of the 

 young plants in the Horticultural Society's Garden, received from 

 Mr. Lawson's, with plants of the same age of P. L. corsicana, 

 appears to be a variety of that species, and is probably identical 

 with the Laricio d'Autriche of Delamarre; but, as we have not 



