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France, especially in the department of Gers ; and, according to 

 Parlatore : "In nemoribus Calabrire ad 2,400-3,000 ped,, liinc inde 

 solitaria ; in insula Cypro, insula Greta, frequens in Monte Tauro 

 Caramanico ad 2,500-5,000 ped. ; in Syria et in Bithynia ubi vastas 

 conficit sylvas " (Prodr. xvi. 384), 



Introduced into England in 1834 by Captain Cook (afterwards 

 Captain Widdrington). 



P. pyrenaica, Lapeyr. , has. Professor Schiibeler says, done well 

 as young plants at Christiania. At Christiansand (58° 8') it thrives 

 exceedingly well. Professor Schiibeler has seen a plant 11 feet high 

 (3 "5 metres). The four top-shoots had together a length of 6 feet. 

 It has also been kept out of doors at Stockholm (Schiibeler). 



If these plants really belong to the true Pimis 2:)yrenaica it is an 

 interesting testimony to its hardiness. As far as I know we have only 

 young plants in Denmark. They have apparently not suffered from 

 winter cold. 



F. pyrenaica, Lapeyr., fide Parlatore (P. Bnitia, Ten., and with 

 other synonyms), must not be confounded with P. pyrenaica, Loud., 

 which is a form of P. Larlcio, to which it is so closely allied as to be often 

 considered a variety of it ; but the leaves of P. Laricio are stouter, 

 and the more numerous ducts are surrounded by strengthening cells, 

 which are very scarce in the leaves of the other. The Pinus pyrenaica 

 of English plantations is now generally considered to be this form 

 of the very variable Finns Laricio, or Corsican Pine, and recog- 

 nisable among other things by the deep orange colour of the young 

 shoots. The name of pyrenaica should be strictly confined to 

 P. pyrenaica, Lapeyr. This is a tree which, on the authority 

 of Parlatore, is a native of the forests of Central and South- 

 eastern Spain, the mountains of Calabria, the islands of Cyprus and 

 Crete, the Caramanian Taurus, Syria, and Bithynia. Not un- 

 naturally, it has received a variety of names, as generally happens 

 when botanists describe a specimen from one locality without having 

 the opportunity of detailed comparison of specimens from other 

 regions. 



The tree in question has been confounded with P. Finaster 

 (as in Yeitch's Manual), from which it differs considerably, Avith 

 P. Laricio, and with P. halepcnsis. Gay, in a note in the " Kew 

 Herbarium," says it differs from P. lialepends in its leaves, which 

 are twice the length of those in halpjMnsis ; in the cones, which are 

 oblong, not ovoid ; and in the scales of the cone, which are depressed, 

 not raised in the centre. We may also add that the stems are less 

 glaucous, and the cones are on much shorter stalks, spreading, not 

 deflected, broader at the base, and with flatter apo2:)hyses. Lambert, 

 unfortunately, confounded both Jialcpensls and Laricio under his 

 maritima. He subsequently corrected the mistake in part, so that 



