PINUS 
LARICIO 
A 
Identification. —PINUS LARICIO. Poiret, Diet., v., p. 339 (1804) ; De Cand., FI. Fr., iii., p. 274 (1805); Desfont., Hist. Arb., ii., p. 611 
(1809)! Loiseleur des Longchamps, Nouv. Duham., v. (1801-19); Lambert, Genus Pinus , ed. 2, i., p. 9 (1832) ; Loudon, 
Arboretum, iv., p. 2200 (1838) ; Forbes, Pinet. Woburn., p. 23 (1839); Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 957 (1842); Antoine, 
Conif., p. 3 (1840-6); De Chambray, Traitd Prat. Arbr. Rds. Conif, p. 245 (1845); Link in Linncea, xv., p. 494 (1841) ; 
Schouw, Annal. Sc. Nat., 3rd ser., iii., p. 234 (1845) ; Spach, Hist. Veg. Phan., xi., p. 384 (1842); Lindley and Gordon, 
Journ. Hort. Soc., v., p. 219 (1850); Knight, Syn. Conif., p. 27 (1850) ; Carriere, Traitd Gen. des Conif. , p. 384 (1855) ; 
Gordon, Pinetum, p. 168 (1858), and Supplement, p. 60 (1862), ed. 2, p. 239 (1875); Henkel and Hochstetter, Syn. des 
Nadelholz, p. 46 (1865); Parlatore, Flora Italiana, vol. iv., p. 52 (1867); et in D. C. Prod., xvi., sect. 2, p. 386 (1868) ; 
Veitch, Manual, p. 147 (1881). [See Note at foot.] 
PINUS SYLVESTRIS e MARITIMA. Aiton, Hort. Kew., ed. 1, iii., p. 366 (1789). 
PINUS MARITIMA. Miller, Gard. Diet., 7 (1795); Aiton, Hort. Kew., ed. 2, v., p. 315 (1810-13); Koch, Dendrologie, ii., 
part 2, p. 286 (1873). 
PINUS LARICIO a POIRETIANA. Endlich., Syn. Conif., p. 178 (1847). 
PINUS ALTISSIMA. Hort. 
Engravings. — Cones and Leaves —Loiseleur des Longchamps, Nouv. Duham., t. 67, et t. 71, fig. 2 ; Lambert, Genus Pinus, t. 4 ; Loudon, Arbor¬ 
etum, iv., figs. 2081-2084; Forbes, Pinet. Woburn., 23 ; Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, figs. 1768, 1769; Antoine, Conif., t. 2, 
figs. 1, 2 ; De Chambray, Traitd Prat. Arb. Res. Conif., pi. iii., figs. 12, 13, et pi. v., figs. 6, 7. 
Specific Character .—P. foliis geminis longis erectis ; strobilis subsessilibus ovoideo-conicis, squamarum 
apophysi nitida convexa, carina transversa elevata, latere superiore convexo, umbone rhombeo mutico vel 
subspinoso. 
Habitat in Corsica et Italia, in Apenninis et Calabria in Sicilia, in Asia Minore et forsan in Grsecia. 
A tree reaching upwards of 100 feet in height. Trustworthy accounts say that in Corsica it has even 
reached 180 feet in height and 10 feet in diameter; but these, of course, are unusually large specimens, real 
giants in their tribe. It is acutely pyramidal in shape, and, when growing alone, well clothed with leaves 
and branches; trunk straight, bark on the older parts of the tree rugged, thick, and leaden grey in colour; 
on the young shoots, pale fawn-coloured. The alburnum whitish, and unusually thick, the heart-wood 
slightly reddish. Branches spreading; when old, often bent down, but rising again towards the ends. 
Branchlets tolerably thick. Buds (fig. 1) not large, from half-an-inch to an inch in length, and quarter of 
an inch to half-an-inch in diameter, ovate at the base, peaked and drawn to a point towards the apex, like 
a camel-hair paint-brush, with a good deal of whitish resin about them. Leaves (shewn in fig. 1) in twos, 
clustered pretty closely together, and often rather mixed and dishevelled, rather long (from 4 to 6 inches), 
stiff, often slightly waved, of a rich dark green, with the margins serrulated, and the apex rather obtuse, with 
about 8 rows of stomata on the back (fig. 2), and about 6 rows on each side on the face. The sheaths of 
the young leaves are rather long and whitish ; when they are older they become brown and blackish. Male 
catkins, clustered together (fig. 3), elongate in form, and about an inch and a half in length. Anthers (fig. 4) 
pale yellow, the filament and loculi not very long, but with a large rounded crest (fig. 5), the margin of which 
N oxe< _The following list of synonyms and arrangement of the varieties is from Parlatore’s monograph in De Candolle’s “ Prodromus.” 
« Pinus Laricio Poiret^/ 5 . Laricio, var. a, Poiretiana, Antoine ; P. Laricio, var. 8, latisquama Willkomim in Willk. et Lange Prod. FI. 
Hispan, i. p. 18. 
“Var. 8, tenuifolia, foliis angustioribus et minus rigidis = P. pyrenaica, Lapeyrouse, Abreg. Suppt., p. 146, ex parte ? ; P. Laricio 8 pyrenaica 
et var. 7, Cebennensis , Grenier et Godron ; P. monspeliensis, Salzmann ined. ; P. Salzmanni, Dunal in Mem. Acad. Sc. Montpellier, ii. 
p. 81 cum icone, Carriere, Conif., ed. 2. p. 494; P. Laricio angustisquama, Willkomim in Willk. et Lange, 1 . c. ; P. Laricio leptophylla, 
Christ, Europ. Abiet. p. 15, et in Botan. Zeitung, ann. 23, n. 27-29. 
“ Var. 7, nigricans, foliis crassioribus rigidioribus fusco-viridibus = P. nigricans, Host. Flor. Austr. ii. p. 268 ; Link in Linnaea, vol. xv. p. 491 ; 
Tenore, Flor. Napol. v. p. 266; Bertoloni, FI. Ital. x. p. 262 ; P. austriaca, Hoss Anleit. p. 6; Monogr. der Schwaze Fohre, Wien! 
1831 ; Carriere, Conif., p. 388; Gordon, Pinetum, p. 162; P. sylvestris, Baumg. Flor. Transylv. ii. p. 303; P. Pinaster, Besser Flor.’ 
Galic. ii. p. 294 ; Tenore, Sylloge, p. 476 ; P. Laricio, Koch, Synops. FI. Germ, et Helvet, ed. 2. p. 767 ; P. Laricio austriaca, Endlicher, 
Conif., p. 179; Henk. et Hochstetter, Nadelholz, p. 48 ; P. Laricio nigricans, Christ, 1 . c. ; P. Fenzlii, Kotschy et Antoine MSS.; 
Carriere, Conif., p. 496; P. Heldreichii, Christ, Europ. Abiet., p. 11 ; P. leucodermis, Antoine in CEsterr. Bot. Zeitschrift, ann. 1864; 
P. Magellensis, Gussone et Tenore, pi. exsicc.; P. taurica , hort. ; P. Dalmatica, Visiani, Flor. Dalmat. i. p. 199. 
“Var. S, Pallasiana, foliis ut in var. 7 strobilis majoribus, squamarum apophysi saepe radiatim fissa — P. maritima , Pallas, Index Taur. ; 
P. ' Pinea, Hablitz, Taur., p. 97 ; P. halepensis, M. a Bieberstein, Flor. Taur. Caucas., ii. p. 408 ; P. Laricio, ejusdem Suppl. iii. p. 623 • 
P. Pallasiana, Lambert, Pinus, ed. ii., p. 11, t. 5, non bona; Carriere, Conif., p. 389; Gordon, Pinetum, p. 175 ; P. Laricio Pallasiana, 
Endlicher, Conif., p. 1 79 -” 
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